Rice: Bush approach best to achieve Mideast peace
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that the Mideast peace process President Bush launched is the best chance yet to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and should not be dropped just because a year-end deadline for a deal is being missed.
Rice told The Associated Press in an interview that the negotiations begun at the Annapolis conference last November have produced solid results and that the U.S. expects strong support at the United Nations this week for a U.N. Security Council resolution that "enshrines" the initiative in the international system.
"That's a really rather simple resolution but it does put Annapolis in that long litany now of important Security Council resolutions supporting the peace process," she said. "The Security Council will make clear that that is the basis going (forward)."
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