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Quartet releases Road Map to Middle East peace; Annan urges sides to embrace plan 30 April – The diplomatic Quartet – comprising the United Nations, United States, Russian Federation and European Union – released its Road Map for a permanent solution to the Middle East conflict today, a move immediately welcomed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who urged the two sides to embrace the plan. The presentation of the Road Map took place in Ramallah within hours of the swearing in of the new Palestinian government. The document was handed over to Prime Minister Abu Mazen by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Terje Roed Larsen, the acting United States Consul General in East Jerusalem, Jeff Feldman, the Russian Federation’s Middle East envoy, Andrei Vodvin and the European Union’s Middle East Envoy, Miguel Moratinos. Also attending the meeting with the Quartet were Palestinian ministers Nabil Shaath, Yasser Abed Rabo, Saeb Erakat. At about the same time, the US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Kurtzer, delivered the Road Map to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. |
Document Sources: Quartet, United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), United Nations News Service
Subject: Governance, Negotiations and agreements, Road Map
Publication Date: 30/04/2003