Premier Qurei Says Meeting with Sharon Unlikely
RAMALLAH, Palestine -- Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmad Qurei, confirmed Saturday that a summit meeting with his
Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon is unexpected in the aftermath of Israeli warplanes assassination of Sheikh Ahmad
Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas last Monday.
“ the one, referring to Sharon, who assassinated Yassin , is apparently uninterested in such a meeting”, Qurei told
reporters, on the sideline of the inauguration ceremony of the Palestinian National Institute for Management in the West
Bank city of Ramallah.
PM Qurei believed that the key to stability in the Middle East region is the solution of the Palestinian question, as
this question affects the whole region from ‘Pakistan to Morocco’.
Asked about the continued Israeli building of its Apartheid Wall around and through the West Bank, the Palestinian
premier, said “we appealed to the international community including the United Nations, a matter that helped submitting
the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)”
Commenting on American congressmen appeal to President Bush to help tear down Berlin Wall (Israel’s Apartheid Wall in
West Bank), Qurei welcomed such a step, regarding it a positive step, as the wall is an obstacle on the path of
stability in the region.
Israeli warplanes, struck on Monday the wheelchair of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in Gaza last Monday, tearing apart Yassin’s
body along with eight others’, and wounding several Palestinians, under the direct supervision of Israeli Prime
Minister, Ariel Sharon.