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ME talks end without any substantial progress
WASHINGTON. Jan 17: Israeli and Arab negotiators ended the latest round of Middle East peace talks on Thursday having made progress on procedure but not on substance and with no agreement on where they will resume talking next month, reports Reuter.
Israeli envqys wrapped up four days of U S sponsored talks by meeting a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation and a subcommittee on Jordanian issues.
The main achievement of the talks was the parties success in resolving a procedural wrangle over the status of the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation that paved the way
for the beginning of real negotiations.
"It is actually historic, because It is the first time In history thal Palestinian.* and Israelis sit down together to negotiate an equal footing, said Palestinian spokesman Hanan Ashrawi.
Chief Jordanian negotiator Abdel-Salaam Majali said there had been some progress "but let us not make It too big. This time, still, there la a profound difference."
Israel's Ambassador to Washington. Zalman Shoval, said the parties had at least started discussing the Issues at the heart of their decades-old confiicL
"I'm slightly upbeat on the peace process." Shoval said. "We had a good-meeting yesterday with the Palestinians. There is our agenda on the table. They also submitted an agenda.
There are some points of reconciliation between these points and we can start serious talks."
But when the Palestinians on Tuesday demanded an end to Israel's settlement drive on the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip and put forward and ambitious blueprint for self-rule In the territories, progress quickly ground to a halt.
The Israelis refused to discuss settlements and did not put forward counter-proposals
on self-rule. though they said the Palestinian proposals were clearly unacceptable.
Separate talks matching the Israelis with Syria and (.ebanon ended on Wednesday with no progress reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's right-wing coalition was already under Intense pressure not to make concessions, with two small ultra nationalist parlies that give It a slender parliamentary majority threatening to leave the government.
The move could trigger early elections in Israel and put the peace process on hold.
From the United States viewpoint, the main achievement was that Arab-Israeli peace talks, which only a year ago would have considered a wild dream, are fast becoming a matter of routine.
The only way to move down this road Is for the parties to engage in direct discussions of their differences. That Is what they're now doing and we think that is significant achievement.' said State Department Spokesman Rlcliard Boucher.
The parties *aid on Wednesday they had agreed to hold a new round of talks in February, probably February 13-23. But agreement was not so close on the location. While the Arabs want Io come back to Washington. Israel I* Insisting the talks move closer to
the Middle East.
AFP report adds: The United States Is prepared to intervene In bilateral Israeli-Arab peace talks to decide on the venue and date of the next round if the parties cannot agree, a senior U S official said.
. "It 1* our hope, as It has been from the beginning, that the parties would work these things out themselves. President George Bushs National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft said
"But as in the past if it is necessary for the United States to play a role that the parties cannot play them-•elve*. then we will do it." he said in an Interview with four International news agencies