Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in Jericho to discuss how to carry out further withdrawals from the West Bank. Tuesday’s meeting came as Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, attending a conference in Paris, gave differing interpretations of U.N. Security Council resolutions on final borders in the West Bank.
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