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Article: Barak launches drive to revive peace process Israeli prime minister talks with Egyptian president, will meet Arafat on Sunday
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1999
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Dramatically launching his drive to revitalize Middle East
peacemaking, Israel's new prime minister made a symbolic pilgrimage
Friday to Egypt, the first Arab country to recognize the Jewish
state, and declared it was time to end "100 years of conflict" in the
turbulent region.
But even as Prime Minister Ehud Barak was promising to press ahead
in his quest for peace with Arab neighbors, Palestinians crisply put
him on notice -- in advance of a crucial first meeting with
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat -- that they would brook no delays
in implementing existing peace accords.
"We won't be taken for a ride," the chief Palestinian negotiator,
Saeb Erekat, told reporters in the West Bank town ...