Saeb Erakat
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Saeb Erakat
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekatwas the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. He later reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003...
israelis system
a monitoring system so they can tell the Israelis what the Palestinians are doing and what they are not doing.
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I am not going to raise any expectations at this stage. This is going to be a difficult process of rebuilding the trust and confidence between Palestinians and Israelis,
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President Clinton said he will give the same chance to the Israelis to pose their reservations and qualifications and then he will get in touch with us ... We will wait and see what Mr. Ross carries with him before we jump to conclusions.
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If they want peace, they must know that what is happening in the Gaza Strip must happen in the West Bank and east Jerusalem,
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Sharon and his army control the West Bank, and still these things happen,
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These experts will work with our team as of tomorrow afternoon. President Arafat has assigned a team to follow up on all its aspects.
arafat meeting president
There is nothing scheduled for a meeting between President Arafat and Mr. Peres,
europeans observers provide urge
urge the U.S. and the Europeans to provide international observers immediately.
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We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. Every time there is movement toward resumption of negotiations we get these attacks by the Israelis.
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Those who planned the attack in Tel Aviv, which we condemn in the strongest possible terms, had the objective of stopping and undermining the peace process, and they should not win. We should continue the process of negotiation.
expect
Unfortunately we should not expect much out of this summit.
vicious
Where do we go with this vicious cycle?
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We demanded from the Israelis to move their forces outside the area of friction, at the entrances of our towns, villages and refugee camps -- to no avail,
content matters
What matters is the content of this summit, not the date,