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Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmed Qureia (AP) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 10:44 20/10/2007 Sarkozy to tell Olmert: Now is the time for peace with Palestinians By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday he would tell Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week that now is the time to make peace with the Palestinians. Olmert was planning to visit Paris on Monday, and Sarkozy said he would make the same case as the one he made to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas last month in New York. "My message to Mr. Olmert will simply be that ... time has come to make peace," Sarkozy told a news conference after an EU summit in Lisbon. "Now is the time to take risks and build a lasting peace." Advertisement United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday that decisions reached at the upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference should be brought before the UN Security Council for approval. Ban made these remarks during a meeting with Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin in New York, and added that he hopes that Syria will send a delegation to the summit. He said that he was pleased U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed her intention to invite Syria to the conference as part of the Arab League monitoring team. Tensions between Israel and Syria have escalated over recent months, and Syrian President Bashar Assad has said that his country would refuse to attend the summit unless Syrian concerns were on the agenda, referring to the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Beilin told Ban during their New York meeting that the chances for this summit to succeed rely primarily on the Palestinians', Israelis' and Americans' understanding of what the possible repercussions would be should the summit fail. The conference is scheduled to take place in Annapolis, Maryland, later this year. On Friday, the Palestinian and Israeli negotiating teams met in Jerusalem to coordinate their stance ahead of the regional peace summit scheduled to take place in Annapolis, Maryland later this year, Army Radio reported. Israel's chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, met privately on Thursday with the Palestinian negotiator heading the current talks, former Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia. Sources told Haaretz that the closed talks were successful, and that the two sides are progressing in their negotiations over a joint agreement to present at the summit. Palestinian officials denied reports of a crisis in the negotiations, saying that the talks were still in their preliminary stages and that it was as yet too early to report any rifts between the two sides. Qureia on Thursday dismissed claims that peace momentum has stalled, saying Israel and the Palestinians still have their sights set on framing a shared vision of peace. "There is no crisis at all, said Ahmed Qureia, playing down Palestinian accusations that Israel has been undermining preparations for the upcoming U.S.-brokered peace summit." The Palestinian Authority's general chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Thursday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have until the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions next summer to complete their talks. The first stage begins now, he said, the period before the peace summit scheduled for next month in Annapolis, Maryland. The second stage would be the negotiations on a peace deal, and the final phase would be the implementation of the treaty. "We have to reach a joint document, and not a peace treaty, on the core issues with specific parameters for solving these issues before convening the conference," Erekat said. Related articles: Erekat: Palestinians want accord by start of U.S. presidential race Opinion: No high hopes for Annapolis Livni: Israel shouldn't rush into concessions for sake of summit Bookmark to del.icio.us Administrative orphans Six Hebron children, whose parents were arrested, were left with their grandmother. Change the past Father of Jewish psychology suggests avoiding picking away at the scars of the past.   1.   Dear Mr Avi, please explain 13:09  |  David Tompkins 19/10/07   2.   Moon lives on the moon 15:07  |  Anton 19/10/07   3.   The whole subject is old and boring! 15:27  |  redmike 19/10/07   4.   This summit will work and won`t fail, I`ve a strong feeling 18:43  |  Tamir Palestine 19/10/07   5.   Ban May Be Overreaching 18:56  |  Mark of Lewiston 19/10/07   6.   This is also not news 19:04  |  Polybios 19/10/07   7.   What? 20:24  |  Danite 19/10/07   8.   #3 Redmike not quite up on pt 1 of roadmap 22:44  |  Labhras 19/10/07   9.   Easy get the Palestinians Americans Chineese, Arabs states Isra 23:26  |  Mohammed Goldberg 19/10/07   10.   Pathetic! Erakat talks about the Republican & democratic 23:45  |  lakshmi 19/10/07   11.   To Labhras # 8 - Commitments. 00:10  |  Dagma 20/10/07   12.   The more the merrier,like Groucho Marx said to 15 personss 00:27  |  Absolute Sweden 20/10/07   13.   #8 - what part of the commitment has the PA kept ? 01:17  |  redmike 20/10/07   14.   #13 What parts has the PA fulfilled? 02:31  |  Rebekah S 20/10/07   15.   Ban Tries to Redeem the UN but It`s Too Late 03:45  |  Jane 20/10/07   16.   Yossi the trader is at it again. 06:12  |  Steven 20/10/07   17.   Beilin gets access? 09:06  |  benny 20/10/07   18.   Absolute Sweden #3 09:51  |  S 20/10/07   19.   There is Nothing to Discuss 11:06  |  Efox 20/10/07   20.   # 16 Steven "Yossi the trader"..... 11:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/10/07   21.   Don`t be fooled by peace crap 11:37  |  Brod 20/10/07   22.   tell him.... 12:07  |  ravi 20/10/07   23.   #2 Anton 12:48  |  German 20/10/07   24.   It is high time for Arab moderates to take risks 13:17  |  Avi 20/10/07   25.   To Labhras 13:26  |  Avi 20/10/07   26.   France doesn`t take any risks and subjugated her revolting Muslim 13:27  |  Absolute Sweden 20/10/07   27.   Beilin worried and Abbas dreaming about Intifada 3 13:44  |  Avi 20/10/07   28.   Israel needs more Mr Beilin 14:21  |  Abe 20/10/07   29.   # 23 14:30  |  Axel 20/10/07   30.   #28 - how do you stay so out of touch! 15:41  |  redmike 20/10/07   31.   Yes it is time for PEACE 16:58  |  Al Rashid 20/10/07   32.   eb 18:22  |  abc 20/10/07   33.   Sarkozy should mind his own business. 18:29  |  Fred Michaelsberg 20/10/07   34.   Is Peace possible? (1) 18:44  |  Dan Chazan 20/10/07   35.   And Cecilia, where is She? 18:44  |  Gabriel 20/10/07   36.   Is Peace possible? (2) (second part) 18:46  |  Dan Chazan 20/10/07   37.   Is Peace possible? (3) (third part) 18:49  |  Dan Chazan 20/10/07   38.   Poor Absolute Sweden 19:24  |  Serenity 20/10/07   39.   It`s not just France and America that are waking up 20:53  |  Natallie Durson 20/10/07   40.   First Decide Who Represents Palaestinians 21:13  |  Lagunageno 20/10/07   41.   The growing odor of desperation 21:47  |  Mark Lincoln 20/10/07   42.   Now is the time to stop eating snails... 22:02  |  Sarah 20/10/07   43.   THERE MAYBE PEACE 22:13  |  Tobia 20/10/07   44.   I will try one last time to pass the censors 04:07  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/07

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