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| Bush to focus on reviving Mideast |
| Bush will then get an update on the peace process from an old friend, former British prime minister Tony Blair.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-September-2007
1:5:56 AM |
| With his chances to advance Middle East peace dwindling, US President George W Bush on Monday will push again for a democratic Palestinian homeland that can coexist with Israel.
In New York for the yearly UN General Assembly meeting, Bush planned to begin three days of meetings with world figures by returning to a peace struggle that has lasted for decades.
His first order of business will be to meet with the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Bush has publicly endorsed the two as forces of moderation who are trying to set up a democratic society with a firm rule of law.
Bush will then get an update on the peace process from an old friend, former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Blair is now a Mideast envoy for a coalition of four partners - the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. He just returned from the region.
Bush is trying to build international support for a Mideast peace conference that his administration plans to hold this fall.
Many Arab states, including some US allies, have been skeptical about the precise mission of the meeting and have sought more details.
''I think that there is a sense of momentum in support of the Palestinians and the Israelis in their efforts to end the conflict,'' US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
Rice said that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to Bush's planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend.
Formal invitations have not been issued yet but Rice said Sunday it ''would be natural'' for Syria, Saudi Arabia and 10 other Arab League members looking at a broad peace deal with Israel to participate despite their hostility to the Jewish state.
More broadly, Bush this week will frame the Mideast conflict as the center of a broad struggle for freedom - from terror, disease, poverty and illiteracy.
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