Officials from the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia will meet in the Jordanian capital of Amman on June 22 to save the Mideast peace process, a UN spokesman said Friday.
The Quartet meeting, which Secretary-General Kofi Annan will attend, follows the recent Aqaba summit at which both Israel and the Palestinians agreed to begin implementing the Quartet's Road map peace proposal, spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters.
Annan "believes the Amman meeting will be a timely opportunity to discuss what the Quartet might do to help generate further momentum in the difficult search for peace," he said.
Annan called on Israelis and Palestinians to "show restraint in their words and actions, so that a revived peace process can gain traction through implementation of the Roadmap," he added.
The Mideast peace process, revived by the Israeli and Palestinian acceptance of the Roadmap, was again endangered after a fresh wave of violence hit the region this week.
(Xinhua News Agency June 14, 2003)
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