Report: PM to meet high-ranking Saudis soon in new peace bid - Haaretz

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Report: PM to meet high-ranking Saudis soon in new peace bid

By Haaretz Service

The Sunday Times of London has reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will soon meet high-ranking Saudi officials to discuss future peace talks with moderate Arab countries, and that Olmert held a preliminary meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a close advisor to Saudi King Abdullah, in Amman at the end of September.

In a speech last week that was seen as an overture to potential peace talks partners, Olmert indicated that he might accept parts of the 2002 Saudi peace plan, which offered Israel full normalization of relations with its Arab neighbors, in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 war borders.

"According to senior Israeli sources, Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, will soon meet high-ranking Saudi officials to explore the formation of a group of moderate Arab countries to negotiate with Tel Aviv over the future of the Middle East," the Times reported Sunday, in a dispatch from Tel Aviv.

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The Sunday Times added that "A preliminary meeting between Olmert and a leading Saudi representative took place in Amman, the Jordanian capital, at the end of September. According to Israeli sources, the Saudi was Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former ambassador to Washington and one of the closest advisers to King Abdullah, the Saudi ruler."

The Saudi proposal, which would encompass the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, is believed to have the support at least seven nations who would agree to peace treaties and full normalization: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the Emirates, Morocco and Tunisia.

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2.	Moderates?	07:44	\|	Paulo	03/12/06

3.	Jerusalem is the capital of Israel	08:06	\|	Ben Adam	03/12/06

4.	#1, Sam Weinstein	08:22	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	03/12/06

5.	Good, Israel continues to seek ways to bring about peaceful	08:47	\|	Nadav	03/12/06

6.	Olmert`s Final Nail in the Coffin	08:55	\|	dave	03/12/06

7.	Moses too was not afraid to negotiate for 40 yrs, while tempting	09:03	\|	am israel hai	03/12/06

8.	Is there no end . . .	09:09	\|	PS	03/12/06

9.	Jerusalem is the capital of Israel # 3	09:21	\|	pali	03/12/06

10.	#8, PS	10:09	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	03/12/06

11.	Olmert has proven what a good kapo he is.	12:28	\|	Nannette	03/12/06

12.	After Israel withdrawal to pre 67 borders, other Arab States	13:09	\|	Joseph E .	03/12/06

13.	Nadav #5..seeking averues to peace.	14:09	\|	Kameel	03/12/06

14.	they share no borders with Israel but are called Arabs neighbors	14:36	\|	Joseph E .	03/12/06

15.	Kameel, the Jewish community of Eretz Israel attempted to reach a	15:05	\|	Nadav	03/12/06

16.	Ben Adam, Indeed, Jerusalem is the capital city of the state of	15:39	\|	Nadav	03/12/06

17.	Oil Money Speaks	15:43	\|	Sam Weinstein	03/12/06

18.	A very good step towards...	17:13	\|	Ziad	03/12/06

19.	American Taxpayers have better things to do with their money	17:18	\|	Natallie Durson	03/12/06

20.	Its A Good Deal	17:20	\|	dan	03/12/06

21.	End the Palestinian experiment..2 states, Israel and Jordan	17:45	\|	David	03/12/06

22.	Dont meet with those who fund world terrorism	17:48	\|	David	03/12/06

23.	David - Palestine/Jordan	18:03	\|	Yair	03/12/06

24.	Time for a Swim?	18:22	\|	Daugherty	03/12/06

25.	ISRAEL FOR SALE CHEAP	18:35	\|	Sam Weinstein	03/12/06

26.	Durson dont speak for me	18:51	\|	american Taxpayer	03/12/06

27.	Nadav, Kameel	19:29	\|	krystal	03/12/06

28.	Gift	20:03	\|	Baz Mann	03/12/06

29.	Krystal, is it also customery by Arabs to break peace agreements	20:20	\|	Nadav	03/12/06

30.	Cipora Julianna Kohn - Israelis good at taking orders	20:21	\|	Jabadini	03/12/06

31.	Dan - West bank called JUDEA and Sumaria until 1948	20:25	\|	Jabadini	03/12/06

32.	Olmert needs to have his head checked not sharon	20:42	\|	zionist forever	03/12/06

33.	Baz Mann, not every nicely wrapped gift contains nice things in	20:55	\|	Nadav	03/12/06

34.	GOD WOrKS IN STRANGE WAYS	21:25	\|	TOBIA	03/12/06

35.	Good Luck to Israel	21:53	\|	Gina	03/12/06

36.	Arafats ghost	02:21	\|	zionist forever	04/12/06