Posted on 06/16/2002 8:07:09 AM PDT by xvb
Egypt rejects interim Palestinian statehood
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher dismissed the idea of creating a provisional Palestinian state.
Such a state "might exist today but not tomorrow. It is something vague," Egypt's Middle East News Agency quoted Maher as saying Sunday.
"There are provisional governments but I have never heard of an interim state existing in the world."
In an interview last week with the pan-Arab newspaper
Al-Hayat, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell floated the idea of creating a provisional Palestinian state as a preliminary step toward an independent Palestine.
It appears to be just one of the proposals officials in Washington are considering as U.S. President George W. Bush prepares a Mideast peace policy he was expected to outline this week.
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