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...state": each of the two communities would have its own territory but share a number of ministries and government functions. Bulent Aliriza, a once -- and perhaps future -- Turkish Cypriot diplomat, who is currently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sees the makings of "the first settlement of an ethnic conflict in the new world order...
...Harvard Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck said yesterday, "We remain hopeful that the settlement can be reached in the very near future...
...first concrete action to advance the peace negotiations that began last fall, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made good its promise to slow down settlement activity in the occupied territories by freezing construction of 6,500 planned units (10,000 housing units already under construction will be completed). Baker said that Israel was embarked on a program of "severe and substantial curtailments," greatly improving the chance that Washington will now grant at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Israel has requested to help resettle Russian Jews. The U.S. had pointedly withheld that aid from...
Arab reaction to Rabin's move was mixed. Syria dismissed the policy change as a p.r. trick. But Palestinian delegates, following a meeting with Baker in Jerusalem, backed away from their threats to walk from the talks in the absence of a complete halt in settlement building. Egypt showed the most enthusiasm. After his tete-a-tete with Rabin, President Hosni Mubarak lauded Israel's "good step on the right track." While he cautioned that "we need much more," Mubarak expressed confidence in his Israeli counterpart. "The man is only one week in office," he said. "What do you expect...
...event we see the Democrats as Zionists. Even ((Syrian President)) Assad understands that four more years of Bush would be better for him, which is why we don't expect Damascus to object too loudly when the loan guarantees are granted, even if Israel's settlement freeze is less than total...