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3 principles for Taba talks
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ISRAELI caretaker cabinet led by Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided yesterday to set three principles for the scheduled talks with the Palestinians which is scheduled to begin in the Egyptian city of Taba yesterday evening.
According to a statement issued after the cabinet meeting, the guidelines binding the negotiation team led by Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami are "red lines" regarding the return of Palestinian refugees, the fate of a disputed shrine in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the dismantling of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The new round of talks, according to a joint proposal by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Ben-Ami, will be held round-the-clock and end in one week or 10 days.
Israel's peace cabinet approved Israel's participation in the meeting on Saturday evening.
Barak hopes such a meeting will bring him some sort of peace deal which will be used as a trump card in the campaign for Israel's upcoming prime ministerial election on February 6.
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