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Dahlan-Mofaz meeting settles PA-Zionist pending security issues
 Palestinian well-informed sources reported that the meeting held Monday evening between the former PA security affairs minister Mohammed Dahlan and the Zionist war minister Shaul Mofaz had settled all pending security issues between the PA delegation and its Zionist counterpart. The sources said that negotiations would be resumed by the two parties following the Zionist pullback from the West Bank cities, and added that Sharm Al-Sheikh summit meeting to be held Tuesday would be a ceremony for announcing the resumption of the Zionist-Palestinian relations that had reached an impasse after the outbreak of the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000.They underscored that the summit would come out with a reciprocal, simultaneous ceasefire between the Palestinians and the Zionist regime. They highlighted that Dahlan agreed with Mofaz on a number of issues atop of which came the Zionist withdrawal from the West Bank cities and villages, formulation of a ministerial committee to follow up the Palestinian prisoners' case, stopping crackdowns and assassinations against the wanted Palestinian activists on the part of the Zionist troops in addition to the fact that the PA would maintain security responsibility over those activists. In the meantime, the Fatah Movement's revolutionary council urged in its communiqué the Palestinian factions not to target what it termed as "Israeli civilians" during their commando raids on the Zionist targets. It expressed the Movement's readiness to abide by a reciprocal; overall ceasefire in the 1967 occupied lands between the Palestinians and the Zionist forces in accordance with the US-backed road map for peace. The council made it clear that its decision to the effect was binding to Fatah and its various offshoots, and noted that the same decision took into account the necessity of enhancing the Palestinian national unity and reviving the deadlocked peace process. Posted by: Fred 2005-02-09 |
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