UK Rejected Israeli Call for Arafat Isolation

World | July 15, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

UK Government rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's appeals for the UK to break off relations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The issue came up when Sharon met UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in London Monday. Sraron's trip to London is seen as an attempt to ease strained Israeli-UK relations and to push forward the Middle East peace process. However, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad warned they would abandon their truce if attempts by the Palestinian Authority to disarm them continued.

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