GERMANY: US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOER CONDOLEEZA RICE ARRIVES IN BERLIN FOR TALKS

Record ID: 648891

  • Title: GERMANY: US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOER CONDOLEEZA RICE ARRIVES IN BERLIN FOR TALKS
  • Date: 17th May 2004
  • Summary: (U4) BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 17, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF POLICE CAR ESCORTING CONVOY OF U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO AMERICAN EMBASSY IN BERLIN, CROSSING UNDER DEN LINDEN BOULEVARD 0.15 2. WIDE OF BACK VIEW OF CONVOY DRIVING TOWARD U.S. EMBASSY (ON RIGHT, IN DISTANCE) 0.34 3. SLV OF CARS PULLING UP OUTSIDE U.S. EMBASSY 0.40 4. WIDE OF SECURITY OUTSIDE CORDON SEALING OFF STREET LEADING TO EMBASSY 0.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6GPW8EMSF1EOLPOKQZS4L5C4J
  • Story Text: U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
    arrives at U.S. embassy in Berlin following talks with
    Palestinian PM.



    Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie appealed to
    the U.S. National Security Advisor and other top White
    House officials in talks in Berlin on Monday (May 17, 2004) to
    stop Israel's mass demolition plan in a Gaza refugee camp,
    a senior Palestinian official said.

    Condoleezza Rice, who arrived at the U.S. embassy in
    Berlin in a motorcade, following her talks with Qurie, was
    the most senior U.S. official to meet with the Palestinian
    Prime Minister since he took office in late 2003.

    "He asked (U.S. National Security Adviser) Condoleezza
    Rice to immediately intervene to stop the catastrophe in
    Rafah," chief negotiator Saeb Ereket told Reuters by
    telephone from the German capital.

    Israel said it would raze hundreds of buildings in the
    Rafah camp to neutralise militants who have ambushed its
    forces patrolling a narrow corridor on the Gaza-Egypt
    border.

    Shaken by the killing of 13 of its soldiers in Gaza
    Strip raids last week, Israeli troops and tanks sealed off
    Rafah on Monday as forces massed on its outskirts.

    There has been a gap in negotiations by Qurie with
    White House officials in recent months, reflecting U.S.

    policy of keeping Palestinian leaders at arms length over
    their failure to halt militant violence against Israelis.

    Qurie, a moderate, hoped to push Washington to back off
    from assurances that Israel could keep parts of the West
    Bank it captured in a 1967 war and to lean on Israeli
    counterpart Ariel Sharon to resume peacemaking with the
    Palestinian leadership.


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