SWITZERLAND: AN AGREEMENT BEWTWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS DUBBED "THE GENEVA INITIATIVE" TO BE LAUNCHED ON DECEMBER 1ST

Record ID: 400886

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: AN AGREEMENT BEWTWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS DUBBED "THE GENEVA INITIATIVE" TO BE LAUNCHED ON DECEMBER 1ST
  • Date: 26th November 2003
  • Summary: (W6) GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (NOVEMBER 26, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR OF SWISS PRESS CLUB 0.05 2. DELEGATIONS ARRIVING 0.12 3. JOURNALISTS 0.14 4. WIDE OF PRESS CONFERENCE 0.18 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ISRAELI DELEGATION DANIEL LEVY SAYING: "The main activity that we have conducted in Israel is to have dis
  • Embargoed: 11th December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVA6VAIUG1C6M5NP0MAFTYG01AXV
  • Story Text: "The Geneva Initiative," an agreement between
    Israelis and Palestinians, will be launched on December 1.


    An agreement between Israelis and Palestinians
    dubbed "The Geneva Initiative", will be launched at a
    ceremony on December 1 in Geneva, Switzerland.

    The document which was sent to all households around
    the two countries received more than fifty percent of
    support, according to a Israeli representative on Wednesday
    (November 26).

    "We got some very encouraging polling information a
    couple of days ago, both vis a vis the Palestinian side and
    the Israeli side," said Daniel Levy, a representative of
    the Israeli delegation. "The Bakery Institute and the
    International Crisis Group tested the content of the Geneva
    accord, the substance and every issue and found fifty three
    percent amongst the Israeli public and similar, slightly
    higher numbers amongst the Palestinian public."
    With the Swiss backing, those who drafted the Geneva
    accord plan have reached detailed compromise agreements on
    all key obstacles, such as the withdrawal from territories
    seized in 1967, land exchanges, the division of Jerusalem
    and the status of Palestinian refugees.

    At the news conference in Geneva on Wednesday the
    representative of the Palestinian delegation Ghaith al
    Omari said the message to people is that peace is possible
    in the two countries.

    "The event will be a hopeful one, it will be a forward
    looking, upbeat one. The message that we will be sending is
    a message of hope, that peace is possible. However, the
    message won't be detached of the current reality," he said.

    The Israeli representative Levy added that despite the
    continuing violence in the region there are moderate
    Israelis and Palestinians who are keen to seek a compromise
    on the situation.


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