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Driving Toward Peace

Aired May 29, 2003 - 11:01   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers are about three hours from more talks on the u.s.-backed road map. This meeting sets the stage for a high-stakes summit with George W. Bush in Jordan next week.
Let's start this hour in Jerusalem with our bureau chief Mike Hanna.

Mike, hello.

MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, hello, Daryn.

The two prime ministers will be meeting for the second time this month, but different from the last meeting in the interim, Israel has accepted that U.S.-backed road map, a document intended to lower the level of conflicts in the region and lead over a three-year period to the establishment of a Palestinian state. In the lead-in to the meeting, there's been conciliatory statements from the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. He said in an interview with an Israeli daily newspaper, that he believes it's possible to get a cease-fire agreement from militant Palestinian groups, something he says that he could achieve over the next week. An end to attacks against Israelis is one of the prime demands of the Israeli administration.

Each side has obligations in terms of a road map, and the meeting this evening will be to determine what obligation each side is prepared to make at this particular stage.

But even as the planning for the meeting goes ahead, violence continues on the ground. At least two Palestinians have been killed in the course of the day by Israeli forces. Both of them said to have belonged to militant groups. The violence in the West Bank and in Gaza, even as the prime minister sat down to begin their talks, and they'll be looking ahead, too, to that all-important summit meeting with President George W. Bush, which will take place in Jordan next week -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Mike Hanna in Jerusalem, thank you.

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Aired May 29, 2003 - 11:01   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers are about three hours from more talks on the u.s.-backed road map. This meeting sets the stage for a high-stakes summit with George W. Bush in Jordan next week.
Let's start this hour in Jerusalem with our bureau chief Mike Hanna.

Mike, hello.

MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, hello, Daryn.

The two prime ministers will be meeting for the second time this month, but different from the last meeting in the interim, Israel has accepted that U.S.-backed road map, a document intended to lower the level of conflicts in the region and lead over a three-year period to the establishment of a Palestinian state. In the lead-in to the meeting, there's been conciliatory statements from the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. He said in an interview with an Israeli daily newspaper, that he believes it's possible to get a cease-fire agreement from militant Palestinian groups, something he says that he could achieve over the next week. An end to attacks against Israelis is one of the prime demands of the Israeli administration.

Each side has obligations in terms of a road map, and the meeting this evening will be to determine what obligation each side is prepared to make at this particular stage.

But even as the planning for the meeting goes ahead, violence continues on the ground. At least two Palestinians have been killed in the course of the day by Israeli forces. Both of them said to have belonged to militant groups. The violence in the West Bank and in Gaza, even as the prime minister sat down to begin their talks, and they'll be looking ahead, too, to that all-important summit meeting with President George W. Bush, which will take place in Jordan next week -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Mike Hanna in Jerusalem, thank you.

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