Bush meets Abbas, Says Peace Process ‘Irreversible’

Washington, December 21, SPA -- U.S. President George W. Bush has met
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and said that Middle East peace
talks are a difficult but “irreversible” process.

“No question this is a hard challenge, but nevertheless, people must
recognize that we have made a good deal of progress, " Bush said at
the White House a month before he leaves office without the peace
deal he had hoped to broker when he revived Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations in Annapolis, Maryland in November 2007.

“I was pleased to note that the U.N. Security Council passed a
resolution which confirms that the bilateral negotiation process is
irreversible and it’s a path to a Palestinian state and a path to
peace in the Middle East,” Bush told reporters yesterday.

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