PUBLICATION OF ROADMAP FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Early day motion 999, tabled 2 April 2003 by Richard Burden (Labour). Signed by 70 members.

That this House notes with concern that several weeks have now pased since President Bush promised the publication of the Quartet's Roadmap for peace in Israel/Palestine; further notes that subsequently President Bush indicated that publication was contingent on the appointment of a Palestinian Prime Minister and that Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has been formally appointed as Prime Minister and endorsed in that role; believes that there is no excuse for further delay in the formal publication of the Roadmap; further notes that the Roadmap was drawn up for implementation with the United Nations Resolutions, and therefore welcomes US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's statement to the 44th annual policy meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that the Roadmap is 'not a matter of renegotiation'; believes that the parties to the Quartet, USA, EU, Russia and UN, all have important collective and individual roles to play in securing implementation of the Roadmap; therefore urges them to publish the Roadmap without further delay and to progress its implementation; and, pending publication, draws the attention of honourable Members to the fact that the draft of the Roadmap can be seen at www.jmce.org/documents/usroadmap2.htm.

Signatures by party: Labour 51, Liberal Democrat 11, Labour/Co-operative 5, Plaid Cymru 3.