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| Bush Says He's Not Ready to Set Date |
| 2002-06-08 |
| President Bush said Saturday he was not ready to propose a timetable toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. "We're not ready to lay down a specific calendar, except for the fact that we've got to get started quickly, soon, so that we can seize the moment," Bush said at a joint news conference with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after they held talks at the presidential retreat. Mubarak, in his opening statement, called for strong American engagement "in the context of an agreed time frame that should lead to establishment" of a Palestinian state. He had gone to Camp David proposing the declaration of a Palestinian state before negotiations on its final borders. How about after Yasser's retired? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Fareed Zakaria seems to imply that this window of opportunity may not be open indefinitely. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-06-09 20:50:25 |
| #1 The NYT seems either to wax verbose on GWB or overly taciturn. That original gave one comment from GWB and one from Mubarrak. Did the report happen to catch them, impromtu, on the way to the john? I doubt if any press conference given by two national leaders would have so little as that article indicated in content. In particular, what "moment" is to be seized? The Whitehouse.gov site has nothing on this joint statement, so I'm left guessing. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-06-08 10:39:10 |