Acting Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami is to visit Paris, London and Washington next week, a ministry spokesman said Saturday.
During the trip, he will be insisting that Palestinian leader "Yasser Arafat should respect the arrangements of Sharm el-Sheikh," which calls for a halt to the violence in the (Palestinian) territories, said Moshe Bebby.
The Israeli minister will also stress his country's opposition to what it calls "any unilateral measure" -- meaning the declaration of an independent Palestinian state.
Ben Ami's trip will include meetings with his French and Russian counterparts, Hubert Vedrine and Igor Ivanov, and the European Union's top diplomat Javier Solana.
In London, he will talk with Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the same day meet with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – JERUSALEM (AFP)
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