Bush to Put Forward US Mideast Peace Plan Soon

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Bush to Put Forward US Mideast Peace Plan Soon

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U.S. President George W. Bush will put out U.S. Middle East peace plans "in the very near future" following meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal this weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.

The Saudi foreign minister's upcoming visit to the United States follows the visits to Washington by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last weekend and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharonthis week.

Bush's meeting with Prince Saud "does complete this round of consultations and I think, as the president has said, he will pullthis altogether with his advisers and I think in the very near future he will make known to the American people and to the world,and especially the people in the region, his vision of how to moveforward," Powell said after meeting with visiting Australian PrimeMinister John Howard.

"I think you will see that coming from the administration, fromthe president in the not-too-distant future," Powell said, declining to elaborate on what steps Bush might take.

He also reaffirmed U.S. determination to hold an international conference on Middle East peace this summer, and said Israel's latest foray into the West Bank city of Ramallah and encircling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters is likely to be a brief one.

"We understand that the incursion into Ramallah is of a limitedduration as they look for terrorists and therefore we would expectit to end in the not-too-distant future, but I do not know when," Powell added.

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