Israel plays down optimism over Mideast peace summit

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2005

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel tried to temper the general mood of optimism ahead of next week's Middle East peace summit, stressing that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was not the forum for substantive political negotiations.

A day after Sharon was invited to the summit hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a source close to the Israeli leader warned the talks would not focus on implementing the troubled peace roadmap, which foresees the creation of a Palestinian state.

"This summit will be an occasion for declarations, which will be of great significance, but it is still too early to have political negotiations on the roadmap," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Tuesday's summit will be the first time...

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