France: G-8 Will Strike out Plan for Mideast ObserversTalks are going on among the world' s richest nations on concrete measures to dispatch impartial observers to the Middle East, the French Foreign Ministry announced Friday."The G-8 summit has adopted a resolution on the deployment of observers. It is therefore natural that we talk about the implementation of this mechanism," the Ministry said in a statement. When gathering on July 21 for their summit in the Italian port city of Genoa, heads of the Group of Eight countries endorsed a resolution urging Israel and Palestinians to accept the deployment of international observers to monitor the ceasefire in the region. "We, together with the British and other European partners, will consider the measures to put what we agreed in our resolution into place," said the statement, without elaborating on the details of the ongoing talks. Israel remains fervently opposed to the idea of monitors while Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has continued efforts to get international observers sent to the violence-wracked West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
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