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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (126388)	2/9/2001 4:12:45 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769670

Cute TP, cute....Here's the real 'scoop'....Powell to Meet With Sharon, Arafat Feb 9, 2001 - 01:15 PM Powell to Meet With Sharon, Arafat By Ron Fournier The Associated Press ap.tbo.com WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to "remain resolute" in the Middle East peace process and is sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to ask them how they intend to proceed. Powell plans to see Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait in a fast-paced five-day trip that also will take him to Brussels, Belgium, for meetings with NATO allies. Apart from taking soundings on peacemaking, Powell said he would give highest priority to enforcing a U.N. regime "to deny Iraq the opportunity to purchase weapons or material" for weapons of mass destruction and "to keep their missile program under control." With U.N. weapons inspections shelved, Powell said, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is going ahead with those programs even though he denies it. Bush, in a brief question-and-answer session with reporters, talked about his telephone call Thursday with Arafat. "I urged calm," he said. The president, hoping to deter violent outbreaks in the Middle East, also called Sharon this week. Bush said he told Arafat "it's very important to give the newly elected leader of Israel a chance to form a government and a chance to do what he said he wanted to do, which is to promote peace in the region." With new leadership in Israel and the United States, Bush said: "I certainly hope that people recognized that a change doesn't necessarily mean the peace process won't go forward." Bush's call to Arafat paralleled the one he made to Sharon on Tuesday once Sharon's landslide victory over Ehud Barak emerged. In that congratulatory call, Bush assured Sharon he would work with him to bring peace and stability to the region. "I think we ought to take Mr. Sharon for his word, and that is he wants to promote peace in the Middle East," Bush said. Bush's call to Arafat on Thursday came a few hours before a car bomb set off two powerful explosions in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. "I'm concerned about all kinds of violence, but I firmly believe the best policy is to encourage leaders to just remain resolute in their willingness to promote the peace," Bush said. AP-ES-02-09-01 1316EST