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Peace Process

Plans for 'Annapolis II' summit in November, in Egypt


By Stan Goodenough
October 03, 2008

In what could be a last ditch effort to secure some form of arrangement between Israel and the PLO that will bind the next US and Israeli administrations to the land-for-peace process, Egypt is reportedly to host an international summit in November.

This would mark one year after US President George W. Bush convened a Middle East conference at Annapolis, Maryland, in a massive push to try secure an Israeli-PLO peace agreement before his leaves the White House next January.

According to a report early Thursday on the website of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, representatives from Israel, the PLO and the so-called Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, will attend.

Arrangements were drawn up when world leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York last week.

A senior but unnamed Jerusalem official said the Israeli and "Palestinian" participants will brief the Quartet over progress made in the "peace" talks.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly wanted a conference that would see the drafting of a document detailing the points of agreement in the Israeli-PLO negotiations. Both Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and PLO negotiator Ahmed Qureia rejected that notion, but agreed to a compromise whereby they will give a detailed briefing to the Quartet.

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