USA: WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN ARI FLEISCHER SAYS THAT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS PRAISED CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA FOR MIDEAST PEACE INITIATIVE

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  • Title: USA: WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN ARI FLEISCHER SAYS THAT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS PRAISED CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA FOR MIDEAST PEACE INITIATIVE
  • Date: 28th February 2002
  • Summary: (W8) WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 26, 2002) (POOL) 1. SLV WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN ARI FLEISCHER AT PODIUM; MV JOURNALISTS AT PRESSER (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FLEISCHER SAYING "The President praised the Crown Prince for his ideas. Here's I think what you may want to take a look at with this. There have been so many negative notes coming out of the Middle East recently, and at least in this statement by the Crown Prince it was a note of hope. Now, it doesn't in and of itself change anything in the Middle East, the situation remains a very complicated situation and a very violent one." 0.42 3. CUTAWAY OF JOURNALISTS AT PRESSER 0.47 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FLEISCHER SAYING "The Saudi statement is a statement about the final result that Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel at the end of the day when there is a comprehensive peace process, peaceful solution agreed to. That is a result. To get to that result is a process. What the President has said is the best process to arrive at that is the Mitchell agreement. The Mitchell Accords, which begins with security talks b/w Israelis and the Palestinians that would then proceed to talks of a more political nature about negotiations within the region to achieve a more lasting peace,, discussions ultimately about the settlement policy and then hopefully a comprehensive peace." 1.31 5. SLV STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN RICHARD BOUCHER AT PRESSER 1.38 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BOUCHER SAYING "The Saudi proposal as you noted in most of its iterations, talks about the question of borders, full normalization for, in their view, full withdrawal. We've noted before the question of borders is one to be negotiated between the parties as part of an overall peace agreement and between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and that there are a number of difficult issues that need to be addressed in that regard. I'm not throwing Syria into it at this point. But our position on Syria has not changed. The door remains open to any negotiations." 2.09 (W8) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT - FEBRUARY 21) (UNTV) 7. SLV CHARGES D'AFFAIRES FOR PALESTINE, MARWAN JILANI, AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING (3 SHOTS) 2.22 (W8) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 26) (REUTERS) 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JILANI SAYING "We welcome the ideas put forth by the Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. We think this is a very important initiative. It will be further elaborated or it will be studied from now until the Arab Summit, it might be further elaborated during that summit. These ideas have also been mentioned during the statement of the Secretary General. That's why in our resolution it's indirectly mentioned in this whole idea. Again the idea of Crown Prince Abdullah, is not new. It's an emphasis on what the Arab's want. It's an emphasis on the seriousness of the Arab world in getting peace. But to get that normal peace, to get peaceful relations with all the states in the region we need an end to the Israeli occupation of all Arab and Palestinian lands, we need an end to the Israeli aggression." 3.21 (W8) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 26) (UNTV) 9. SCU CHARGES D'AFFAIRES FOR PALESTINE, MARWAN JILANI, AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING 3.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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