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 Road map for peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In exchange for statehood, the road map requires the Palestinian Authority to make democratic reforms and abandon the use of terrorism.
Thus the parties have not complied with the requirements of Phase I of the road map and no further progress on the roadmap has been made and it is thus currently effectively in limbo.
For the first time during the road map process, Bush indicated his expectations as to the outcome of the final status negotiations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Road_map_for_peace   (1651 words)

  
 'Road map' to peace delivered in Mideast - baltimoresun.com
The road map, published on the Internet months ago and debated here long before yesterday's unveiling, was presented a day after a new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, was installed after calling the armed uprising a failure.
"The road map must be implemented, not negotiated," he said, adding that the issue of Jewish settlements continues "to be a major threat to the creation of a Palestinian state with genuine sovereignty.
The road map does not offer solutions to other contentious issues, such as the future of Jerusalem and whether the city would be divided with both sides having it as their capital, and the demands by Palestinians that refugees from the Arab-Israeli wars be allowed to return to Israel.
www.baltimoresun.com /news/nationworld/bal-roadmap0501,0,449668.story?coll=bal-nationworld-utility   (1332 words)

  
 A Road Map to Peace in Colombia
This Road Map for Peace in Colombia is presented in the hopes that its content might prove of some usefulness in helping the Colombian people formulate their own plan for attaining a just peace in their country.
This road map is intended to be a rough guide that will hopefully stimulate ideas and discussion on how to implement a plan for peace that ensures social justice for all Colombians.
This Road Map for Peace in Colombia attempts to formulate a plan that is just and fair for all participants in the process.
www.colombiajournal.org /peaceplan.htm   (2400 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Roadmap to Peace -- April 30, 2003
The road map itself calls for it to be performance-based and goal-driven.
Also in the road map, I think the overriding principle is not just a timeline which is suggested there as an ideal, but the overriding principle and assumption is that it will be performance driven.
Now, in the road map that we have already a timeline which suggests that -- don't forget that it was written and concluded last year December 20, so there, there is a date for the first phase to be completed by May 2003.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/roadmap_israel_4-30.html   (1287 words)

  
 MIDDLE EAST: The Road Map to Peace - Council on Foreign Relations
A U.S.-backed peace proposal first floated in 2002, the road map sets a series of benchmarks designed to move Israelis and Palestinians over three years to the creation of a Palestinian state that exists in peace with Israel.
As a result, some experts consider the road map more of a ceasefire agreement or general framework than a specific blueprint for peace.
In the road map, both sides will agree at the outset on the goal of a Palestinian state.
www.cfr.org /background/mideast_roadmap.php   (1215 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | The road map to peace
The road map is an internationally devised peace plan, drawn up by the US, the UN, the EU and Russia - with Israeli and Palestinian consultation - that seeks a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But he has also said that the road map would not stop illegal settlement building, and later qualified his remarks by saying he was referring to people rather than land under occupation.
While accepted by the Israeli cabinet, it is not clear if Mr Sharon has genuinely accepted the road map, is accepting it to ride out the current US pressure on him to accept it, or is accepting it in the expectation it will not work and, therefore, does not matter.
www.guardian.co.uk /theissues/article/0,6512,679445,00.html   (1397 words)

  
 TIMEeurope Magazine | The Road Map
Sharon vows to forge ahead with the new road map for peace.
The road map Bush unveiled with strikingly little fanfare last week was drawn up months ago by a quartet of co-sponsors including the European Union, the U.N. and Russia, and its contents have been known since last fall.
As Sharon sees it, he can sell the road map to the Israeli public only if there is first evidence that Abbas will arrest suicide bombers and crush their networks.
www.time.com /time/europe/html/030512/story.html   (1157 words)

  
 Washington Week . For Educators . The Road Map to Peace in the Middle East | PBS
The Road Map to Peace in the Middle East
President Bush's proposed "Road Map to Peace" offers a design for "the emergence of an independent democratic Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors" that involves a series of reform and development efforts.
Analyze and determine the implementation capacity of the Road Map's components.
www.pbs.org /teachersource/previews/redir/http://pbs.org/washingtonweek/educators/roadmap.html   (1221 words)

  
 Sharon Agrees to Road Map for Peace
After the US issued a statement agreeing to fully address Israel's concerns over the Road Map for peace during its implementation, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he was ready to accept the Road Map and would submit it to his Cabinet for approval Sunday, May 25th.
Central Florida has been very dry since the Road Map for peace was presented to Israel and the Palestinians on April 30 and the Abu Mazen possum came out on May 1st.
The weather angels answered the Road Map for peace with a mass, road wreck in Maryland.
www.biblenews1.com /history3/20030523.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Elements of a Performance-Based Road Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the outset of Phase I: Palestinian leadership issues unequivocal statement reiterating Israel’s right to exist in peace and security and calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire to end armed activity and all acts of violence against Israelis anywhere.
Such a meeting would be inclusive, based on the goal of a comprehensive Middle East peace (including between Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon), and based on the principles described in the preamble to this document.
Arab state acceptance of full normal relations with Israel and security for all the states of the region in the context of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace.
www.un.org /media/main/roadmap122002.html   (1709 words)

  
 Whose 'Road Map'?, by Justin Raimondo
For the record: The whole "road map" idea is a losing proposition for the U.S., a useless charade made possible and even necessary by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
To see such tactics being openly used to derail the road map looks really bad, and the spectacle of the hate-monger Elon touring the country, spreading his particular variety of poison, doesn't help.
There are two road maps to peace in the Middle East on the table: the Bush-Powell version and the Elon plan.
www.antiwar.com /justin/j050503.html   (2416 words)

  
 A Road Map to Peace - The Politic - Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The road map calls for democratic reforms in the Palestinian leadership, along with a cessation of terrorism, to be followed by an end to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the establishment of an independent Palestine.
Approval of any aid package for Israel should be contingent upon a public declaration of support by the government for the road map, including an end to settlements and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on modified 1967 borders.
Bush has declared a personal commitment to see the road map process through to its goal: the creation of a Palestinian state in the near future.
www.thepolitic.org /media/paper457/news/2003/05/13/Opinion/A.Road.Map.To.Peace-433226.shtml   (1058 words)

  
 Road Map to Peace Requires an End to Palestinian Terrorism, Not Just a Cease-Fire
President Bush's ambitious "road map" for peace, which calls for a series of confidence-building measures as a prelude to creation of a Palestinian state and a final peace agreement by 2005, is beset by diplomatic gridlock.
The road map is more of a wish list of negotiating goals than a blueprint for peace.
The Bush Administration must stick to principles laid out in the President's June 24, 2002, speech, which declared that the violence had to end before peace could be negotiated and stressed the importance of developing a Palestinian leadership untainted by terrorism and committed to the rule of law.
www.heritage.org /Research/MiddleEast/em893.cfm   (1033 words)

  
 CNN.com - Israeli Cabinet OKs peace 'road map' - May. 26, 2003
The first phase of the road map involves the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian zones reoccupied during the current uprising and a freeze on settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza.
Sharon initially was reluctant to endorse the road map but did so Friday after Washington said all of Israel's concerns would be addressed in the implementation of the plan.
But Sha'ath said the statement was "irrelevant" at this point because the road map specifies the issue will be discussed during the third and final phase of talks.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/05/25/israeli.cabinet   (860 words)

  
 The ‘Road Map’ to Peace or a One Way Street to Failure?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But together as the quartet, the four parties are pressing ahead with the road map — the latest diplomatic attempt to end years of unbroken violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
In phase one of the road map, a rebuilt Palestinian security force is supposed to begin "sustained, targeted, and effective operations to confront all those engaged in terror." That force is also expected to take out the terrorist infrastructure.
Gaffney and others believe the biggest obstacle to the road map is another map — the one printed in textbooks and hanging on walls throughout the Arab world.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/907154/posts   (1208 words)

  
 Road Map for Peace
The so called Road Map is a performance-based plan with unambiguous milestones and definitions, intended to lead to a final and comprehensive settlement of the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict by 2005.
Bush correctly saw that no peace discussion with Israel had any meaning so long as the other side of the table was occupied by a terrorist group trying to elevate themselves into a state.
The Road Map itself will be formally announced after Mahmoud Abbas sets up a new cabinet, a process so far complicated by Arafat's resistance to a truly reform-minded group of ministers with real power.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_current_roadmap.php   (3003 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Bush to publish road map to peace
George Bush reluctantly put his Middle East peace plan back on the agenda yesterday by promising to release his "road map" to a Palestinian state, apparently in an attempt to ease the political pressure the Iraq crisis is putting on Tony Blair.
He reversed his previous insistence that the issue must wait until after the coming war, but created a new delay by tying the release of the road map to the confirmation in office of a Palestinian prime minister "in a position of real authority".
But the release of the road map will be a reversal for Ariel Sharon, who had persuaded the White House to stall its publication and is proposing more than 100 amendments which would force back the 2005 deadline for a Palestinian state.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,914575,00.html   (772 words)

  
 Sharon Abandons Road Map To Peace
The road map, announced last year, envisioned a Palestinian state by next year.
"I think that those who saw the Gaza disengagement as an opportunity because they counted that it would be part of the road map should really understand that their good intentions are one thing and that Sharon's good intentions are another," Mr Erekat said.
"Sharon's intention is to destroy the road map and to dictate his long-term solution of Gaza as a prison and 40 per cent of the West Bank within walls, and this will not fly."
www.rense.com /general57/map.htm   (379 words)

  
 Correspondents Report - Road Map to peace nearing collapse
EDMOND ROY: Not two weeks after summits in the Middle East, the Road Map to peace, backed by US President George W Bush, is close to collapse.
We have the commitment of leaders and now we have to execute that plan and keep moving forward and not allow ourselves to be distracted or thrown off point from the promise that's out there with the Road Map by this serge of violence.
We have a Road Map, both sides know what their obligations are and we are going to drive forward on the Road Map.
www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s879801.htm   (696 words)

  
 Road Map Israel Palestinian Peace Plan - Worldpress.org
Sharon’s acceptance of the road map under pressure may be a mere tactic, after which Sharon will jump at the first opportunity to back out and render the plan a failure.
The United States is getting closer to Poland and Qatar than to France and Germany....Bush’s seriousness about advancing the road map for peace in the Middle East could be seen in Sharon’s change of attitude after his trip to the United States.
Before his meeting with President Bush in Washington, Sharon seemed to be rejecting the road map....After the meeting, Sharon said he accepted the phases in implementation of the road map....Of course, some still doubt Sharon’s seriousness, given his reputation as a Jewish fanatic who represses the Palestinians.
www.worldpress.org /Mideast/1147.cfm   (1259 words)

  
 Road Map For Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The principles of the plan, Road Map For Peace, were first outlined by U.S. president George W. Bush in a speech on June 24, 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living in peace with the Israeli state.
One was a notable diplomatic success: Egypt recovered the Sinai Desert and Israel won free rein in the Occupied Territories, as results of the 1978 Camp David Accords brokered by President Jimmy Carter.
It is against that bloody backdrop that the so-called Road Map for Peace was proffered by the "Quartet," a group of diplomats from the United Nations, European Union, Russia, and the United States.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2053.html   (1381 words)

  
 End of the Road Map to Peace
Peace is the hope of all nations, including quite a large number of Jews both inside and outside Israel.
During a visit to Cairo a few days ago, a delegation of Palestinians confirmed that the end was near and that the threats to Arafat are genuine and are part of the larger plan of doing away with the top echelon of the Palestinian leadership and thus depriving Palestinians of any authority.
The end came when, in a television interview broadcast on April 27, Sharon said that the death certificate had been issued for the road map to peace — ascribing it to the Palestinians’; failure to abide by the map and evading their commitments.
www.arabnews.com /?page=7§ion=0&article=44243&d=3&m=5&y=2004   (691 words)

  
 The Hindu : A road map to peace
The Hindu : A road map to peace
Infiltration of terrorists from across the Pakistani side of the Line of Control, the massing of troops at the border by both countries, and the increasing exchanges of artillery fire matched only by the verbal volleys exchanged between the leadership of both countries, could escalate quickly into a full-scale war.
Thereafter, three further steps can be taken to ensure long-term peace and towards resolution of a crisis that has now lasted well over half a century.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2002/05/31/stories/2002053102501100.htm   (586 words)

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