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ME talks hit feverish pace ahead of Clinton's departure
THURMONT, Maryland, July 18 : Negotiations between Israel I and the Palestinians go around I the clock in a feverish bld to reach a peace agreement before US President Bill Clinton leaves for a G8 summit in Japan, reports AFP.
According to the White House. I Clinton was working harder than ever with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat before he leaves for Japan Wednesday.
'The pace and the intensity have both quickened." spokesman Joe Lockhart said Monday. There have been two straight ! very long nights between the sides working through the difficult Issues here."
There are a number of negotiators who have been awake for a long time over the last two or three days," he added.
White House spokesman PJ Crowley said late Monday that die two sides ’’probably (will) work well into the night."
Lockhart said earlier at the summit press center nearby Camp David that "the plan is to complete this process before the president goes. The president has a schedule to keep."
Clinton is set to hold bilateral meetings with his Russian counterpart as well as the British and Japanese prime ministers In Okinawa, the spokesman noted.
"I expect that when the president leaves the parties will wrap up their business." Lockhart added.
However, he refused to comment on reports that the talks were in crisis, citing a news blackout imposed on the summit.
'Time Is very short, the gaps remain wide." Israeli cabinet secretary Yitzhak Herzog, who is In the United States, told AFP. The next 48 hours are critical." he said.
The last moments of the negotiations can be the decisive ones, pressure is mounting.
anything could happen,” added Yuli Tamir. Israel’s Minister of Immigration and Absorption.
A senior Palestinian source admitted too that the sides were now at loggerheads.
But Clinton reported "some progress" Sunday. "I'm more optimistic than I was when they got here," he said in a New York Dally News interview.
The White House stuck to that assessment late Monday. 'The assessment made by the president yesterday Is still valid," Crowley said.
In Jerusalem Monday, Israeli Parliament speaker Avraham Burg virtually ruled out any chance of a deal before Wednesday, saying the talks needs "more time."
Burg told public radio after a long telephone conversation with Barak that the two sides have never been so far apart" on the two most central Issues in the negotiations: the status of Jerusalem and the question of the
Palestinian refugees.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of three factions in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, also | urged Arafat to leave, saying the US-brokered talks were biased | toward Israel.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians held peaceful marches in Gaza to support their negotiators.
Arafat has determined that he will declare a Palestinian state by September 13. come what may. Israel has countered that ft can annex territory amid fears of violence.
Israel Insists Jerusalem must remain its undivided capital, while the Palestinians want east Jerusalem, which Israel captured In the June 1967 war. as the capital of their own state.
Meanwhile, negotiations on civilian Issues linked to a permanent peace settlement at a site near Camp David were "serious and intensive,".