(23 Oct 1998) English/Nat
Spokesmen for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders have issued statements about the recently agreed Middle East Peace Accord.
A spokesman for Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian premier confirmed he would return to Washington immediately.
Meanwhile an official Israeli spokesman revealed details of the accord, including the numbers of Palestinian prisoners to be released.
He also said the number of Palestinian policemen in the West Bank would be reduced from 40 to 30-thousand.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I have been informed to leave back immediately to Wye Plantation. Mrs Albright is there with President Arafat and we are on the way to Washington. Thank you very much."
SUPERCAPTION: Ahmed Tibi, Arafat's Adviser
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"There's another issue with the release of prisoners - we are going to release a few hundreds of prisoners, a few hundreds, but I don't want to give you an exact number."
SUPERCAPTION: Aviv Bushinsky, Netanyahu's Spokesman
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Palestinians had to fulfil upon the Oslo Accord A and B the number of Palestinian police members and the unauthorised weapons. We found out that the Palestinians just kept on adding more and more policemen, Palestinian policemen. And we asked them to obey, to behave according to the agreement. So it will be reduced from about 40-thousand to about 30-thousand."
SUPERCAPTION: Aviv Bushinsky, Netanyahu's Spokesman
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