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TOKYO, Dec 6 Kyodo

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reliance RISES FROM GENEVA (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Dec 5)

Just as it appear to beed the international community was distracted by way of the situation in Iraq, about encouraging news has emerged regarding the Palestinian conflict.

Peace-making advocates among the pair the Palestinians and the Israelis...have tend hitherward up with a new Geneva accord, with the support of former U President Jimmy Carter and the Swiss management British Prime Minister Tony Blair and more than 60 other world leaders, past and existing have endorsed it, and U Secretary of State Colin Powell invited representatives of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides to Washington to persist in it.

The accord translates the ''land-for-peace'' principle, which has been the basis of peace-making negotiations between Palestinians and the Israelis, into these three points:

The latest Geneva accord be likes positions presented in the 2000 peace negotiation backed from former U.S. President Bill Clinton, still it was made more realistic regarding the Jewish payments and the Palestinians' right of go [i]or[/i] come back in order to change the ''unbearable'' conditions that commonly prevail.

While the main architects of the accord are former cabinet members forward both sides, it is also actual that agreements made by commonalty not in positions of authority have no validity. Indeed, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon characterized the accord as a harmful act beyond the authority of those who wrote it, and Palestinian Islamic extremists derided the Palestinian representatives as traitors on the outside to undercut the Palestinian cause.

Since Palestinians and Israelis are engaged in daily clashes and the wall separating the pair sides is still being built, the Geneva agreement cannot be a quick cure-all for the situation. one as well as the other Palestinian and Israeli representatives yield the agreement might be a virtual accord, like the image onward a computer screen.

unless the architects of the 50-page accord, deposit together in two years of unofficial discussion, did not envision formal negotiations. Rather, the intention was to provide a glimmer of room for expectation to both Israelis and Palestinians, who have been thrown into despair because of seemingly incessant armed conflict.

A disposition has been created that provides a voice and decision-making power to ordinary the community to get their opinions regarding the peacemaking proces after having those ingredients dominated by top-level politicians since the 1993 Oslo Accord. The international community should take the farthest care in nurturing this process

It appears the administration of U.S. President George W Bush has squandered sight of a path for making the Middle East a peaceful and stable part of the world. Those who drew up the Geneva initiative have the right to ready their views on how democratization should be state into effect in the Middle East when they fitting with Powell.

(Dec 6)

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