Tuesday, April 30, 2002

U.S. Says Monitors Don't Augur Security Force
A team of British experts is surveying the needs on the ground, and is to be joined by a State Department official to work out details over the next 24 to 48 hours, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today.

"Hopefully, a transfer will take place that will then allow Chairman Arafat to have the flexibility needed for movement around the occupied territories," Secretary Powell said, "so he can take up his responsibilities once again to end the violence, end terrorism, and to rebuild the functioning structures, recreate functioning structures within the Palestinian Authority so that we can get back to a path of security, a path of negotiations, and a path that would allow humanitarian and reconstruction aid to come into the region."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/international/middleeast/30DIPL.html

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