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[Between Ariel Sharon and Prince Saud, heaven help the Palestinian people.] Saudi Prince Wants Peacekeeping Force in Israel April 28, 2002 — DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said in an interview published Sunday that his country wanted an international peacekeeping force to be sent to the Middle East under any deal to end Israeli-Palestinian violence. Prince Saud al-Faisal, who has been in the United States where Crown Prince Abdallah held talks with President Bush, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that the oil-rich Arab state no longer believed observers -- as proposed under a U.S.- brokered plan -- would be sufficient. "We now want international forces to protect the Palestinians and ensure security along the lines of what was done in the Balkans," he told the paper. NATO peacekeepers were deployed in the Balkans in Kosovo, where the United Nations took control in 1999 after Yugoslav forces withdrew after a NATO bombing campaign, launched to halt Serb repression of the province's ethnic Albanian majority. Prince Saud said Saudi Arabia did not support a proposal for observers to monitor a truce under CIA Director George Tenet's blueprint agreed last year. "We think the (magnitude of) events goes beyond the capabilities of observers," he said. At least 1,315 Palestinians and 458 Israelis have been killed since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation flared in September 2000 after peace talks stalled. Prince Saud said the kingdom presented the United States with an eight-point plan for the revival of peace talks, which complements an earlier Saudi land-for-peace initiative for normalizing Arab relations with Israel in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab land occupied in 1967. He said Saudi officials had kept in constant telephone contact with senior Palestinian officials during last week's talks in the U.S. He added, without giving details, that the Saudis had passed on Palestinian proposals for a solution to Palestinian-Israeli stand-offs in Bethlehem and Ramallah. Prince Saud repeated Saudi denials of media reports that Riyadh was considering using its vast oil resources as a weapon to influence U.S. policy. Crown Prince Abdallah and the Saudi delegation have delayed their departure from Texas as talks continued with the Bush administration about Middle East peace proposals. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
