So while then-prime minister Ehud Barak for instance claimed that his offer to cede the Temple Mount was contingent on the signing of a peace treaty, when the so-called Middle East Quartet issued its road map plan for peace, Barak's ostensibly canceled offer was the starting point of negotiations.
Mr Bush's decision to take an active role in the new peace process has at least given the road map impetus.
The road map peace plan, adopted by the Bush administration together with the other members of the Middle East Quartet (the EU, Russia and the UN) in 2003, is similarly explicit.
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In 2003, he held talks with Palestinian officials about the U.S.-led "Road Map to Peace" that called for the eventual creation of a Palestinian state.
It was on the basis of both Bush's letter and this more detailed agreement that both the Sharon and Olmert governments agreed to permit the US to act as an arbiter of Israel's implementation the so-called road map peace plan.
In April this year, under international pressure, Mr Arafat appointed the more moderate Mr Abbas as prime minister and, in June, President George Bush got Mr Sharon and Mr Abbas to shake hands on the road map, a peace plan drawn up by America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which envisages an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
She said political settlements will be based on the road map for Middle East peace backed by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
He said Hamas' participation violates international agreements, including the Oslo accords and the "road map" for Middle East Peace.
The beginning of peace and hope, what announced today in addition to being the implementation of the first article of the road map that was established by the quartet.
The imminent power shift represents a stark change in ideologies: Abbas has long been a conduit of the White House-backed road map to Middle East peace.
He will head a team of monitors co-ordinating implementation of the so-called "road-map" to peace, after an experience as assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation in the State Department.
The "Mitchell Report" was praised for its impartiality and became the basis of a so-called road map for later peace initiatives.
Bush will leave the G-8 summit on Monday, a day early, to fly to Egypt for a meeting with Arab leaders before traveling to Jordan to meet the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers to discuss implementing the U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
George Bush's road map for peace drew on ideas first proposed by Joschka Fischer, then the German foreign minister.
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