President Clinton’s meeting with Yasser Arafat on Tuesday focused on the Palestinian leader’s request for U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state at a later date if Arafat agrees to let May 4 pass without a unilateral declaration. But Clinton reiterated U.S. policy that a state can only emerge through negotiations, according to U.S. officials. Clinton promised to seek “intensive, serious and credible” peace talks that don’t drag on indefinitely. He also told Arafat that Israeli expansion of settlements beyond existing boundaries are “destructive to the process of peace.”
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