1. China may wait until a summit can be arranged next year between Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Clinton, if he wins the November elections, he said. 2. President Clinton demonstrated statesmanship and strong leadership by arranging the summit meeting so swiftly and keeping it focused on the urgent issues that confront Israel. 3. U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross arranged the summit Wednesday, which could take some heat off Netanyahu. 4. Bar-Illan would not confirm a report in the Haaretz newspaper that Netanyahu wants the European Union to arrange a summit with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. 5. Earlier this month, Ross arranged a summit between Arafat and Netanyahu, their first meeting in eight months. 6. Earlier Saturday, Edward Abington, the U.S. consul in Jerusalem, met with Arafat in Gaza City to try and arrange a summit. 7. Feissel is expected to make repeated trips across the U.N. buffer zone that splits the island to arrange a summit. 8. His visit coincides with a new round of shuttle diplomacy by U.N. officials to arrange the summit. 9. If no summit can be arranged before his departure, the king said he was willing to try to organize one at his Beijing residence. 10. Israeli news reports said Ross would try to arrange a summit between Peres and Syrian President Hafez Assad. |