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By Challiss McDonough
Cairo
19 April 2007


The Arab League has picked Egypt and Jordan to take the lead in approaching Israel to promote the newly revived Arab peace plan aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. VOA correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Cairo.


Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal announced Wednesday evening that the Arab League has chosen Egypt and Jordan to form its new working group tasked with convincing Israel to accept the Arab peace initiative that was re-launched at a special summit in Riyadh last month.


He said, "Egypt and Jordan, the two countries that recovered their land [from Israel], will exert efforts to implement 1 the Arab peace initiative and to facilitate a start to direct negotiations 2."


They are the only two Arab states that already have peace deals and full diplomatic relations with Israel.






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Tzipi Livni (26 Mar 2007)



Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday expressed disappointment that the working group included only the two Arab states that have already established ties with Israel. Her office issued a statement saying she is prepared to meet with Egypt and Jordan to discuss the initiative, but also urged the Arab League to "show flexibility 4" and agree to wider talks.


Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa had said other Arab states will only agree to talk if Israel meets a set of conditions, which include ending the economic embargo 5 on the Palestinian government, halting expansion of West Bank settlements and stopping construction of the separation barrier around the West Bank.


Moussa said, "If Israel does that, an extended Arab work group would contact the Israeli government to discuss ways of achieving a peaceful settlement in a fixed 6 time frame. This is exactly what we intend. There is no normalization 7 for free."


Switching from Arabic into English, Moussa said the Arab states are open to peace, and they hope Israel is too.


"We hope that this will open the way for the Israeli government to move on and change its policy in the occupied territories, something that would open the gates for more contacts, wider contacts, and lead to a meaningful and hopefully successful negotiating process," he said.


A day after Jordan and Egypt were designated the Arab representatives for the plan, Dalia Yitzik, the Israeli speaker of the Knesset, who is also Israel's acting 8 president, was in Jordan Thursday for talks with King Abdullah. The king told her and a 10-member Knesset delegation 9 that the Arab initiative represents "a historic opportunity to achieve Middle East peace and end decades of conflict between Arabs and Israelis."






A Saudi waiter serves tea for Arab leaders during the closing session of the Arab summit in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, 29 Mar 2007


A Saudi waiter serves tea for Arab leaders during closing session of Arab summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 29 Mar 2007



The Saudi-brokered peace plan offers Israel peace and normal relations with all Arab countries in exchange for Israeli withdrawal 10 from all land captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel initially 11 rejected the proposal when it was first signed in Beirut in 2002, but has lately said it views the plan as a possible basis for negotiations.


The Arab League formally re-launched the initiative last month in Riyadh, and a flurry of diplomatic activity has followed



n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
vt.破坏,毁坏,弄糟
  • It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
  • Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
n.柔韧性,弹性,(光的)折射性,灵活性
  • Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
  • The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
n.(normalisation)正常化,标准化
  • The visit signalled the normalization of relations between the two countries.这次访问显示两国关系已经正常化。
  • He was pleased to the normalization of relationship between the police and the people.他很高兴警方和人民之间关系的正常化。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
n.取回,提款;撤退,撤军;收回,撤销
  • The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
  • They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
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-olide
applications programme
art rock
audiolingual skills
Bandi R.
blow jobber
botstein
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calathus
central isomorphism
circumstantly
citicoline
civil service protection and training statistics
climatic cycle
Corniger
coronary suture
Dreistelzberg
drug dependence
ead.
east-southeast
elchi butti
electron ratio
false heart wood
faulters
flaking station
foot of a perpendicular
FTNMR
functional lesion
gap energy
gastralgia
geocentric longitude
gluteline
Gungnamji
gypsoid
have the laugh over someone
heterogenization
hewins
homothallic organism
humphrey pt.
inquiry and subscriber display
jecoric acid
jurubidine
kingposts
line-switching type
lymphangictodes
marakkanam (merkanam)
marlen
media necrosis
microteaching
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mirabelle prune
mono-aminodicarboxylic acid
mural tunnel
normative document
north dakotas
nuclear-emulsion film
nucleus propticus parvocelluralis
o-tert-amyl phenol
one on the city
Ortazol
orthogonal increment process
ouvre
ovum(pl. ova)
pass-the-buck
precogitating
pressure remanent magnetization
private stream
professional career
properispome
pumaren
puttable
q-analog
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recellularization
relic coiling
reset key
residivation
rila
round-head machine screw with grommet nut
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secretary-treasurers
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sit at the stern
soapnuts
spectroscopy by diffraction grating
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spiral-bounds
standby radio canggel
Staphylococcus pharyngis
static condensation
through rose-coloured glasses
trachy
tube-in-tube condenser
vinelli
well performance
white lines
Zermatt