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Olmert: No Commitment to a Specific Timetable for Negotiations
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the cabinet on Sunday that there was no Israeli commitment at Annapolis to any timetable. "An effort will be made to hold accelerated negotiations in the hope that it will be possible to conclude them in 2008," Olmert said. "However, there is no commitment to a specific timetable regarding these negotiations." Livni, who headed the Israeli negotiating team that worked out the joint understandings at Annapolis, said, "We want to negotiate...the start of negotiations is in our interest, and we want to finish it as quickly as possible. But we did not commit ourselves to a timetable that would bring with it indirect international pressure on Israel." Livni said, "It was important to create a distinction, whereby the track will now be bilateral, without any direct intervention from the international community."