Former US leader Carter backs alternative Mideast plan: report

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Former US leader Carter backs alternative Mideast plan: report

Former US leader Carter backs alternative Mideast plan: report

BERN (AFP) Nov 23, 2003
Former US president and Nobel peace prize winner Jimmy Carter has thrown his weight behind a controversial alternative peace plan for the Middle East known as the Geneva Initiative.

"The Geneva accord is a culmination of all previous accords that have been passed", Carter was quoted as saying in an interview posted on Sunday on the Swiss website Swissinfo.

The former US leader also confirmed that he would be present in Geneva on December 1 for the official launch of the plan, which has been sharply criticised by the Israeli government.

Carter said the Geneva plan could give a new lease of life to the "roadmap" for Middle East peace drawn up by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations......

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