WGNNews.org Posted 9:50 A.M. March 14, 2005
Annan kicks off Mid-East mission
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has decided how
Israel's West Bank barrier will be routed near Jerusalem,
officials say.
Abbas' demands
Arriving in Israel on Sunday, Mr Annan praised progress
made at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit and said he looked forward to
helping move the process forward.
The UN along with Russia, the European Union and the
United States, make up the quartet which drafted the "roadmap"
peace plan outlining steps in the peace process
Quartet members, including Mr Annan, met on the sidelines
of a London conference on helping the Palestinians earlier this
month.
Israel and the UN have had plenty of arguments in recent
years, but Mr Sharon is keen to receive important visitors, says
the BBC's James Reynolds in Jerusalem.
This is more important now as the Israeli leader gets
ready to implement his disengagement plan to remove Jewish
settlements from the Gaza Strip, our correspondent says.
The pullout is due to start in July.
