Visit The Annapolis Process
The joint announcement read by U.S. President George W Bush at the
conclusion of the Annapolis conference (November 27, 2007) marked a
significant shift in the outline of the Israeli-Palestinian political process. Until
Annapolis, this outline was defined in the Roadmap as a sequential process:
progression from stage to stage required the implementation of specific
benchmarks outline in the plan's three stages. According to this logic, the
Roadmap asserted, the negotiations for a permanent status (stage 3) shall
commence only after the implementation of the first two stages of the plan.
And indeed, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon strictly and repeatedly
stressed that there would be no transition from one stage to the next without
the full implementation of the previous stage.
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