U.S. ENVOY ANTHONY ZINNI HELD TALKS WITH PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ...

World | March 22, 2002, Friday // 00:00

U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni held talks with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday to try to salvage a battered truce mission after a Palestinian suicide bombing which killed three Israelis. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said after the session in the West Bank city of Ramallah that Israel had attached unacceptable conditions for putting into motion a cease-fire plan charted in June by U.S. CIA Director George Tenet. Erekat did not elaborate but Israeli political sources said the differences revolved around a timetable for implementing the truce and moving on to a wider U.S.-backed plan for confidence-building measures and eventual peace talks, Reuters reported.

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