Arafat: Roadmap to peace is dead

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today said the US-backed road map for Middle East peace is dead and that Israel is to blame.

Wed, 03 Sep, 2003 - 10:32

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today said the US-backed road map for Middle East peace is dead and that Israel is to blame.

The plan calls on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to end nearly three years of violence and envisions the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005.

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