Clinton Mideast Effort Rests on Security Talks
President Clinton’s last-gasp bid to sketch a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians appeared today to rest on the success of talks between the two sides on stemming 15 weeks of bloodshed.
Israeli and Palestinian security officials met late into the night Wednesday in a follow-up to talks Israeli Cabinet minister Amnon Lipkin-Shahak held Tuesday with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.
The session came on the heels of a U.S. announcement that Mideast envoy Dennis B. Ross had postponed indefinitely a visit to the region.
Meanwhile, hard-liner Ariel Sharon, the leading candidate for prime minister of Israel, said the 1993 Oslo agreement with the Palestinians “doesn’t exist anymore” and that if he is elected, he will negotiate “on a totally different basis.”
Canada on Wednesday publicly reaffirmed an offer to accept Palestinian refugees. In an interview with the Toronto Star newspaper, Foreign Minister John Manley said numbers had not been discussed.
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