[aristeides]

I don't take the one word "announce" as necessarily implying a public announcement, still less a scheduled one. For what it's worth, I took the paragraph when I initially read it to mean that Bush was expected to promise this during the meeting, and 3:30 PM was the time when the meeting was scheduled either to begin or to end. Since that was my initial reading, I think that's at least a possible interpretation of the word.

[general_re]

I dunno. Who was he supposed to "announce" it to? The furniture? Al-Arian alone?