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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (700)	10/28/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

Newsday - 10/27/98 JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Vatican wants Israel and the Palestinians to create special statutes ensuring access to Jerusalem's holiest sites when the two parties begin negotiations of the city's future, its foreign minister said Tuesday. Monsignor Jean Louis Tauran said the Vatican is not asking for a seat at the negotiating table with Israel and the Palestinians and is not interested in taking a stand on the claims to the city by the two sides. ''But...we ask that the uniqueness and the sacredness of the most holy places of Jerusalem be internationally guaranteed.'' Tauran spoke to reporters at the end of a two-day conference on Jerusalem attended by some 40 Roman Catholic clergymen from around the world. According to a communique published at the end of the conference, the special statutes would ensure Muslims, Jews and Christians ''true freedom of conscience and religion, including full access to the Holy Places, and their right to carry out their own religious, educational and social activities.'' In negotiations on a permanent peace agreement, Israel and the Palestinians will try to tackle the most difficult issues, including the future of Jerusalem. Palestinians want traditionally Arab east Jerusalem, where most of the holy sites are located, as the capital of their would-be state. But Israel, which captured the Arab sector in the 1967 Middle East war, has maintained it will not accept a divided capital.