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To: Richnorth who wrote (20759)	12/21/2002 7:35:23 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

'Road map' for Mideast peace complete, secret URL:http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-meast21.html December 21, 2002 BY BARRY SCHWEID WASHINGTON--The Bush administration joined with its European, Russian and UN partners Friday in pursuing potential pathways to Mideast peace but deferred issuing a detailed plan until after Israel's elections in January. After a White House meeting, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said the plan was complete except for provisions to monitor the pairing of enhanced security against violence with moves toward setting up a Palestinian state. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Moeller, whose country is the president of the European Union, said he was not discouraged about the results of the meetings with President Bush at the White House and at the State Department with Secretary Colin Powell. ''On the contrary, we have finalized the text,'' he told reporters at the White House. Bush, in a brief picture-taking session in the Oval Office, offered assurances he was holding to a vision of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side. ''This government will work hard to achieve that,'' he said. But UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan suggested the two sides were not ready to do that. ''It is important that an Israeli majority and a Palestinian majority accept a two-state solution,'' he said. In the meantime, the so-called Mideast Quartet--an ad hoc enterprise of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States working to bring an end to the Middle East impasse--called on the Palestinians to adopt reforms and improve security against terror. The State Department renewed a call on Israel to halt work on Jewish settlements, some of which are illegal, spokesman Richard Boucher said. ''We are not waiting. We are doing things,'' Boucher said in response to suggestions the Bush administration was marking time. Earlier, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that a peace ''road map'' was being deferred because ''the president wants to make certain that the road map is developed in a way that will make the most progress.'' AP