THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release October 19, 2000
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
JAKE SIEWERT
The James S. Brady Briefing Room
1:17 P.M. EDT
Q What's the President sense of compliance by each party
with the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, and is he in touch with any of them?
MR. SIEWERT: I don't believe that he's made any additional
calls today. I mean, there's no doubt that the past several weeks have
left emotions very raw and a lot of tension on both sides in the
situation that remains very volatile as we can see today.
As I said this morning, no one should expect to see total calm
restored in the short term, but we recognize that both sides have taken
some steps to implement the agreement at Sharm. They've both issued
statements calling for an end to the violence. The Gaza Airport has
been reopened and some of the internal closures between Palestinian
controlled areas have been lifted, along with some of the international
passageways between Gaza and Egypt and the West Bank and Jordan have
been reopened.
There have been some trilateral security meetings that
potentially could bear some fruit in restoring some calm in the area.
But this is going to be a day-by-day process, and we expect both sides
to remain vigilant in complying with the agreement and taking further
concrete measures to implement it.
END 1:44 P.M. EDT
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