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SAM F. GHATTAS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ Diplomats trying to stop the fighting between Israel and the Palestinians are discussing a plan that would produce a provisional Palestinian state next year and a permanent settlement by 2005.
After a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the so-called Quartet _ the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations _ issued a communique on Tuesday deploring "the morally repugnant violence and terror which must end." They agreed to intensify peacemaking efforts.
U.S. diplomats were reportedly not satisfied with the plan, saying it was premature and too detailed at too early a stage.
The communique did not say that the parties had agreed on the roadmap.
"The Quartet is working closely with the parties and consulting key regional actors on a concrete, three-phase implementation roadmap that could achieve a final settlement within three years," the communique said.
In the first phase from late this year through the first half of next year, it said, the plan would include "performance-based criteria" for comprehensive security reform. Israeli forces would withdraw to their positions of Sept. 28, 2000 _ just before the latest conflict erupted _ as the security situation improved. The plan would also guarantee support for free and fair Palestinian elections.
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The meeting was followed by talks with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
The United States was represented by Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United Nations by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Russia by its foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, and the European Union by its foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, whose country holds the EU presidency.
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