New highlights from Sharon/Powell newser + photo-op
(28 Jun 2001) 1. US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon come out, shake hands, then return inside. 2. Wide of Powell and Sharon approaching podium 3. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister: "We have accepted the Mitchell Plan and also the plan of (CIA director) George Tenet. Today we had a meeting where we clarified the positions. This is how we see the continuation. There will be a full and complete break in terror activities, violence and incitement. We'll need complete quiet. There will be seven days when we will see how the Palestinian Authority stands with its commitments. After these seven experimental days, we will begin the six week cooling off period. During all this time we'll need complete quiet." 4. Wide of presser 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State: "Obviously, now that it has been announced and we have talked about this seven day period, the whole world will be watching it. The international community will be watching it. I'll be watching it. But most important of all the Prime Minister and his colleagues will be watching it. And since they are the ones most directly involved. They are the ones so deeply concerned about the violence that's taking the lives of so many people, they will, at the end of the day, have to make a judgement as to whether or not it is quiet, by what definition. Because they are party to the agreement. It is the two parties that will have to decide together that we can move forward into the cooling off period. Both the Palestinians and the Israeli side. But even though many of us will be watching, it is the Prime Minister that bears ultimate responsibility as to what direction his country will move in to with respect to the beginning of the Mitchell Committee sequence. 6. Wide of conference 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister: "It should be completely quiet and then we will have to check if it really worked and, of course, we will continue for six weeks. I think its much simpler than it looks, because when there is a mortar shell, everyone hears. And when there is a road side bomb, everyone sees." 8. Wide of conference 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State: "Earlier today when we were talking about monitors and observers I had it in the context of what the two sides might choose to do within their own resources or whatever resources might be appropriate by mutual agreement, not by some outside group of forces coming in. The word force was used in some of the reports. No such consideration was taken and we have spoken against that kind of intervention previously." 10. Presser ends and men shake hands. STORYLINE: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced on Thursday an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on a timeline for moving down a road to resumption of peace negotiations. Powell, at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the process would begin with a seven-day period to see if violence is halted. He described it as a period "in which we will measure the chairman's actions." He was referring to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has been urged to do everything he can to halt terror attacks against Israelis. Powell had met with Arafat earlier in the day on the West Bank. The second stage, Powell said, would be a six-week cooling off period, as recommended by a commission headed by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell. This will lead to so-called confidence-building measures, Powell said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
