1.   The Palestinians took this as a ploy to forgo all the additional pullbacks of Israeli troops specified in the Oslo agreements.

2.   With no additional pullbacks scheduled in the next six months, there seems little to lose in trying.

3.   A remaining sticking point is the scope of an additional pullback promised by Israel.

4.   Barak dropped his insistence that an additional West Bank troop pullback be folded into a final peace treaty, his office said.

5.   But Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said his side would permit the reopening of key roads into Sarajevo whether or not his demands on the additional pullback are met.

6.   In addition, the NRP stipulated that Netanyahu not sign a withdrawal agreement unless the scope of an additional pullback is decided on now, Mor-Yosef said.

7.   Israel also would skip an additional pullback to which it had committed itself, and the two sides would instead begin talks on a permanent peace agreement.

8.   Israel would also skip an additional pullback to which it had committed itself, and instead the two sides would begin talks on a permanent peace agreement.