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SLUG: 2-302767 Britain/Mideast (L-O)
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DATE=4/30/2003 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT TITLE=BRITAIN / MIDEAST (L-O) NUMBER=2-302767 BYLINE=MICHAEL DRUDGE DATELINE=LONDON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: Britain is urging Israel and the Palestinians to work without delay to implement the new Middle East peace plan. London Correspondent Michael Drudge has details. TEXT: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says the road map to peace will require, what he called, "visionary leadership and courageous statesmanship" from both sides. Mr. Straw deplored the Palestinian suicide bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 30 in Tel Aviv, just hours before the peace plan was presented to Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He pledged full support to help the two sides crack down on such violence. /// STRAW ACT /// We in Britain, together with the rest of the international community, will do everything we can to support them, including action by us to help the security forces of both sides bear down on the kind of terrible indiscriminate violence from rejectionist groups that we saw overnight. /// END ACT /// Speaking to reporters in London, Mr. Straw also said the peace plan offers a stark choice for the region. /// 2ND STRAW ACT /// Either the Palestinian and Israeli peoples continue into this vortex of decline and violence, or, with the help of the international community, they are able to build their way out of it. /// END ACT /// The foreign secretary said both sides will have to make what he called "difficult and painful" compromises to reach the goal of a final and comprehensive settlement by 2005. NEB/MWD/AWP/FC/RAE |
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