CAIRO : Filling in the Blanks
Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization negotiators meet in Egypt starting Wednesday to work out detailed plans for implementation of the historic accord on self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that they signed in Washington last month.
The talks promise to be difficult, with topics both sensitive--security for Israeli settlers, cooperation between Palestinian police and the Israeli army, release of PLO supporters from prison--and technically complicated, such as sharing water resources.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the PLO’s Mahmoud Abbas, the two principal architects of the basic accord, will lead their delegations to the main political talks in Cairo while other teams meet in the resort town of Taba on the step-by-step implementation of the agreement.
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