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In the view of Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the “road map”, the peace plan worked out jointly by the UNO, USA, European Union and Russia to try to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “is certainly not ideal; it is flawed by its grave absence of details, it contains vague and disconcerting aspects, nonetheless, it “represents an opportunity, however modest, of finding a solution based on two states”. The plan in fact provides for the end of the Israeli occupation which began in 1967 and the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside the territory of Israel. In spite of that, deplored Raiser in recent days, during the meetings in Jordan of US President Bush with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, “the peace plan practically makes no reference to the question of frontiers, to the status of Jerusalem, to the Israeli colonies and to the Palestinian refugees”. In the view of the WCC secretary, “it remains to be seen whether the ‘road map’ will induce the two sides to renounce the current process of mutual destruction and seek their common interest instead”.
