Quartet Convenes Soon to Assess the Road Map

Quartet Convenes Soon to Assess the Road Map

GAZA, Palestine, June12,2004 (IPC+ Agencies)-- The Quartet committee (United Nations, United States, Russia, the European Union), is to convene by the end of June to assess the latest developments regarding the Middle East Road Map peace plan, Spokesman of the French Foreign Ministry, Herve Ladsous, reported on Friday.

Ladsous, who was commenting on the G8 summit’s results, was quoted as saying that members of the Quartet, will meet at the foreign ministerial level, by the end of June, to evaluate the Quartet-set Road Map peace plan, unrevealing the meeting’s whereabouts.

The said meeting is intended at assessing the Road Map in the shadow of continued Israeli military actions against the Palestinian people, sources believed.

The discussions due to be held are expected to focus on the progress so far made and the way that the Road Map can go parallel to the proposed Israeli unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and dismantling of some Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the sources noticed.

Noteworthy, the G8 summit meeting in Sea Island in the U.S state of Georgia, had joined several bodies around the globe that backed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s ‘disengagement plan’, which set forth withdrawal from Gaza Strip and dismantling of settlements by September 2005.

Paris, from its part, backs the idea of an international force being deployed in the Gaza Strip when Israeli forces withdraw from there under Sharon’s plan.

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The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python (Alquds, 1/25/03.

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