Bush Urges Immediate Work on Palestinian State
Mr. Bush's remarks stopped short of the hopes of Mr. Mubarak, who in a lengthy opening statement today called for "an agreed time frame" that would lead to the establishment of a state that Mr. Bush now refers to as Palestine. In an interview in Cairo earlier this week, Mr. Mubarak said he would press Mr. Bush to support the declaration of a Palestinian state early next year.
"I don't think that violence will come to an end unless the people feel that there is hope for peace and there is something to show that peace is coming," Mr. Mubarak said, standing next to Mr. Bush under a canopy of oak and walnut trees outside Holly Cabin, one of the guest lodges at the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. "If they didn't feel that, they will not stop the violence. It will continue forever."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/international/middleeast/09PREX.html
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