Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday they had not approved the remarks made by Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Sharon and Netanyahu made the disclaimer at Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting after Yehuda Lancry said at the United Nations last Friday that Israel accepts the principle of two states for two peoples as a basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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