Eyes on Annapolis as Bush Convenes Mideast Summit Amid Optimism, Support

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Eyes on Annapolis as Bush Convenes Mideast Summit Amid
Optimism, Support
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Â After weeks involving frantic diplomacy, best officials via more than 40 nations
converge about this historic state money Tuesday for what President Bush hopes is going to be the
particular launch regarding the initial Israeli-Palestinian peace talks within seven years.
Buffeted simply by skepticism more than prospects your Annapolis Conference can easily set
happens for that creation of a Palestinian state from the finish involving Bush's 2nd term, his
administration provides downplayed expectations with regard to main breakthroughs nevertheless
insists the exercise is not futile.
Expressing optimism, Bush noticed both main players, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, separately in the White Home in Monday for you to nudge all
of them closer to end up being able to agreement about the conference centerpiece, a new joint
document or "workplan" about new talks.
But even with his efforts, such as the pep speak to almost all individuals in a State Department
dinner, and also individuals involving Secretary regarding State Condoleezza Rice who held last-
minute talks Monday with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, both sides had not but bridged the
actual gaps, officials said.
"We've bond this week because we reveal the typical goal: a pair of democratic states, Israel and
Palestine, living side-by-side inside peace and security," Bush said. "Achieving this aim requires
tough compromises, as well as the Israelis as well as Palestinians get elected leaders dedicated to
creating them."
Shortly before his toast, the senior Palestinian official stated progress about the document -- a
starting point with regard to negotiations that sketches only vague bargaining terms -- was
becoming made however stressed it absolutely was nevertheless a new are employed in progress.
Bush will gather Abbas as well as Olmert with every other at the U.S. Naval Academy in front of your
opening of the conference upon Tuesday at which in turn all three men will speak.
The session will then become turned over to Rice and the delegations of others there, which includes
Syria along with Saudi Arabia, members in the diplomatic "quartet" on the middle East, members
with the U.N. security Council, as well as the Team associated with Eight industrialized nations
among others.
The quartet -- the particular United States, the
European Union, the particular united Nations and
Russia -- expressed strong assistance for that
Annapolis conference in the statement Monday.
The Israeli along with Palestinian leaders say they
wish to forge a conclusion to Victorian Houses For
Sale Annapolis MD be able to among the particular
world's oldest and a new lot intractable conflicts
within your 14 several weeks that will Bush has left
throughout office. And, they will say, participation
by simply this kind of wide array of countries,
particularly Arab states like Saudi Arabia and also Syria that do not recognize Israel, is actually
considered critical to end up being able to chances with regard to success.
Saudi Arabia said hello agreed to attend following receiving assurances the Bush administration
would remain energetic after the talks begin. Nevertheless questioned if however shake hands using
Olmert, your kingdom's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, gave any curt no.
"We are here for that severe business of making peace," he said. "It is not really a sporting contest in
which you shake hands as well as allow very best man win."
Yet Olmert mentioned the actual international support could get this effort be successful exactly
where all other people have got failed. "This time, it's different since we're planning to have a large
amount of participation with what I hope will launch a new serious procedure negotiation in between
us as well as the Palestinians," he said.
"We want to move forward," Olmert said. "We do not necessarily want your status quo."
Abbas stressed the actual must address sticking points that have doomed prior peace attempts. "We
have a good deal of hope this conference will produce permanent status negotiations ... that would
lead to a new peace agreement in between Israel and furthermore the Palestinian people," he said.
But just hours prior in order to the conference, the particular major get-togethers even now had
even now not framed any blueprint regarding peace talks and remained in odds over the true secret
concerns who have doomed just about all previous attempts.
The negotiating document below preparation had been intended in order to set the target of
concluding negotiations just before Bush leaves office within January 2009 and commit the two
factors to resolving the key conditions that divide them. However, as associated with late Monday
individuals issues weren't identified in any formal operating paper. Disputes more than these issues -
- final borders, sovereignty more than disputed Jerusalem and additionally the fate involving
Palestinian refugees which lost homes within the war which followed Israel's 1948 creation -- get
tormented peace efforts with regard to decades.
Meanwhile, criticism with the conference from the Center East underscored your enormity of the
challenge.
Leaders in the Islamic militant team Hamas labeled Abbas the traitor even for coming towards the
meeting, and also vowed for you to reject any kind of decisions in order to emerge with the
conference.
In Jerusalem, greater than 20,000 Israelis gathered at the Western Wall, the particular holiest
website where Jews may pray, to always be able to protest the actual conference. Israeli opposition
leader Benjamin Netanyahu labeled the particular summit "a continuation involving one-sided
concessions."
In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in the speech the conference "has already failed" and that the
U.S. was just attempting to preserve its reputation.

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