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President Clinton Set to Resume Mideast Peace Summit

Aired July 24, 2000 - 6:00 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: United States President Bill Clinton is set to resume more marathon talks this hour at the Camp David peace summit. Negotiations are about to enter their third week, and Mr. Clinton is urging both sides to seize the moment.

CNN's Andrea Koppel reports and joins us live -- Andrea.

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPT. CORRESPONDENT: Judy, negotiators on all sides have been saying that the next 24-72 hours will be decisive in determining just how this summit will end. Sources also say that President Clinton is expected to call a three-way meeting between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to discuss Jerusalem. That has been, for the last several weeks, the key sticking point; of course, the point being Jerusalem -- the Palestinians wanting East Jerusalem as their future capital of a Palestinian state -- the Israelis holding firm to their longstanding position that Jerusalem must remain the undivided city.

Now, according to one idea that has been floated by some Israelis, the Palestinians would share East Jerusalem, and, actually, would have some sort of limited control -- religious control, if you will -- over the holy city, and then would have some sort of control -- they're not calling it sovereignty -- but some kind of control over certain east Arab neighborhoods, just outside of the holy city.

And so, President Clinton's challenge, over the next week or so -- or, excuse me -- within the next 24 to 72 hours, will be to break this deadlock over Jerusalem, try to narrow the differences in the hopes, Judy, of getting an agreement -- Judy.

WOODRUFF: Andrea, just how fierce are these time pressures? As we've pointed out, they are now starting just about the third week of negotiations. How much pressure are they feeling to get this resolved?

KOPPEL: Well, the White House likes to say that this is not calendar-driven, that President Clinton will put just as much time into these talks as long as he feels that there is the prospect for success. And right now, they are focusing on the next immediate, one, two, three days to try to see if there is any wiggle room on both the Israeli side and the Palestinian side. But having said that, you know, next week, the Republican conventions begin, and the last thing the White House would want to do is to try to overshadow that most important event -- Judy. WOODRUFF: All right, Andrea Koppel reporting, thanks.

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