Syria Maintains Arab Peace Offer Is Not Negotiable With
Zionists
Middle East News Updates
8 May 2009
DAMASCUS: The Arab League and Syria
have shot down a US suggestion that the Arab peace
initiative be changed to make it more palatable to
Israel.
The 2002 peace initiative offers Israel Arab
recognition, peace and normal relations in exchange
for an Israeli withdrawal from territory it occupied
in the 1967 Middle East War, the establishment of a
Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital
and a just solution to the issue of Palestinian
refugees.
Several Arab diplomats said this week that the
Americans are asking Arab states to drop demands for a
right of return for Palestinian refugees and agree to
either resettle them in the host countries or in the
Palestinian territories.
Arab foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League
headquarters in Cairo yesterday rejected the request,
said Jordan’s foreign minister. “The ministers renewed
their commitment to the initiative as it is without
change,” Nasser Judeh said.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Muallem also rejected
the idea of changing the Arab peace offer, saying: “I
don’t see any justification for amending this
initiative.”
At a joint news conference with the foreign ministers
of Finland and Estonia, Al-Muallem said: “Is it
logical that with every new Israeli government the
Arabs would concede and put forth a new plan and new
concessions under the slogan of a comprehensive plan?”
The minister was commenting on Jordanian King
Abdallah’s remark that a new “combined approach”
currently under discussion with the US would have
Israel, Syria, Lebanon and other nations sitting down
together to try to resolve the Middle East conflict.
The talk of the new US-backed approach coincided with
a visit to Damascus by Jeffrey Feltman, the State
Department’s top Middle East envoy.
“We came here today as part of President Obama’s
commitment to use diplomacy, to use dialogue in order
to try to see where we can move forward, where our
interests overlap, and to see where we can try to work
together to bridge the differences that remain in some
of our policies,” Feltman said.
He was accompanied by White House official Daniel
Shapiro, both visiting Damascus for the second time
since March.
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