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ME leaders engage in struggle to strike peace deal
THURMONT. Maryland. July 13: US hosts played up an informal but busy atmosphere as Israel and the Palestinians struggled to reach a peace deal at the second day of the Camp David Middle East summit on Wednesday amid a virtual news blackout, reports AFP.
Only the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had cancelled a US-op-posed 250-million-dollar Phal-cou Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) for China to improve its leverage at the bargaining table penetrated the wall of silence surrounding the talks.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said negotiations on the core issues dividing the two sides were well underway but refused. citing the news blackout, to answer any questions relating to their substance.
"It's been a busy day between all of the parties and there's been real engagement today dealing with the substantive issues that define what the parties need to agree on in order to reach an overall agreement." Lockhart told reporters here
where the press has been sequestered since the talks began Tuesday.
US President Bill Clinton and his team held a series of meetings with Barak. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and their top negotiators, he said, but he declined to say whether Washington believed any progress had been made thus
"I think that the fact that we've spent two days working at the hard issues means something to us. but I’m not going to get into a description of what that means." he said.
Despite informal contacts between delegates -- including at meals, walks and short rides on golf carts across the sprawling grounds of the mountain retreat -- Lockhart said he was not "trying to underplay the seriousness and the problems they face here.”
Lockhart told of "a certain informality on the Camp David site that is adding a certain value to these discussions." but confessed that the negotiations were far from easy at the presidential retreat in the Catoctin
mountains.
"We have known all along that this was going to be a struggle and it is." he said, welcoming at the same time the cancellation of the Phalcon sale which Washington believed would raise tension between China and Taiwan.
Despite Israeli officials’ hopes that the cancellation might improve their position. Lockhart said it would have little impact on the negotiations which are to continue Thursday despite Clinton's temporary departure from the talks to two previous engagements.
The two sides remain at loggerheads over all the core Issues Clinton is hoping to resolve: the future of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state, the fate of 3.7 million Palestinian refugees, Jewish settlers and security guarantees for Israel.
In Jerusalem. Israel said for the first time it would be willing to swap land with the Palestinians inside its 1967 borders in exchange for areas in the West Bank
Haim Ramon, a senior minister. said the prime minister
would accept an exchange of land within the borders of the state of Israel.
Fears that the summit, expected to last about a week, might fail have raised the spectre of renewed violence in the region and In the Palestinian territories Arafat's powerful Fatah PLO faction declared a state of alert for the first time In four years.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian minister told reporters that Arafat was waiting for a US initiative to bridge the gulf in positions.
With a September 13 deadline for a final pact looming and Arafat's vow to declare a Palestinian state by that date. Clinton launched the summit urging both sides to seek a "principled compromise."
The president, who has set aside a week to try to strike a peace deal in Maryland, is due to go to Japan for a summit on July 19. He will also make a temporary exit from Camp David either Wednesday night or Thursday morning to attend prior engagements.