
The tripartite meeting of US President Bill Clinton, President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and the chairman of the Palestinian National Administration of Yasir Arafat in Sharm El-Sheikh today, negotiations on the Middle Eastern settlement have resumed about noon. Before the start of them, the head of the American and Egyptian states talked for 20 minutes to face.
The leaders of delegations will be the last time to achieve the main goal of an emergency summit of the cessation of violence in the Middle East. That night, negotiations ended with a bilateral meeting of US President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barack. In total, on Monday, participants in negotiations met 16 hours. According to one of the representatives of the White House, P. J. Crowley, the American president is still determined to break the "dynamics of violence" in the Middle East.
So far, in Sharm El Sheikh it was not possible to coordinate the text of the final document that the delegations are studied. It contains three main provisions: the withdrawal of Israeli troops to their former positions, the return of the Palestinians and Israelis at the negotiating table, the creation of a mechanism that would clarify the causes of the current confrontation and would not allow the repetition of such events. As you can understand from the statements of Israeli sources, the essence of disagreements is in the sequence of actions of the parties to stop the conflict. Palestinians demand that Israel take its troops to the end of clashes.
Israel ensures that at first the Palestinians cease violent actions, and insists on Time-Auta in a peaceful Middle East process lasting a few weeks or months. As it became known today, at a summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Ehud Barak officially raised before Bill Clinton the question of postponing the resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians.