Statements by US Pres Bush and PM Sharon following meeting - Apr 11, 2005

Statements by US President George Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
following meeting
Texas - April 11, 2005
[Information Department, Israel Foreign Ministry - Jerusalem]
www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=24852

Q: Mr. President, given the continuing settlement activity on the West Bank,
are you satisfied that Israel will do enough, once they pull out of Gaza, to
meet the terms of the road map and put it back on track?

PRESIDENT BUSH: If he listens to what I say, he won't hear anything
contradictory. I've been very clear about Israel has an obligation under the
road map. That's no expansion of settlements.

...Q: Regarding your quid pro quo letter to Prime Minister Sharon and the
statement you just stated now, do you see Ariel and Ma'aleh Adumim as part
of the major population centers - and I want to emphasize, as they are now,
as they exist now, without any extensions, or do you see them as an obstacle
to the contiguity of a future Palestinian state?
...
PRESIDENT BUSH: Israel has obligations under the road map. The road map
clearly says no expansion of settlements.
...But there is a road map, there is a process, and we've all agreed to it.
And
part of that process, no expansion of settlements.

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