(State Department) In response to a question, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday in Ottawa: "Jim Wolfensohn has had discussions with both parties about what they need to do. And it is very clear that the [Gaza border] crossings issue needs to get resolved, not just the Rafah crossing but the issues of freedom of movement within the West Bank and issues about other crossings that need to be freed up so that the kind of economic program that we all want to see in the Palestinian territories, that indeed the G-8 signed on to the Wolfensohn plan. And I took what Jim is saying as simply asking the parties to do everything that they can now that the Israelis are out of the Gaza to make sure that Gaza is going to be a place that Palestinians can see a different kind of life and therefore start to build the foundations for a Palestinian state."
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