WASHINGTON, April 30 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - Russia is to get sure terrorists have no chance to lay hands on weaponry before it gets arms exports to Palestine going, warned Adam Ereli, US Department of State deputy spokesman, as he was commenting, yesterday, on a Russian offer of helicopters and munitions to Palestinians.
The State Department officer is not sure Russia has talked its initiative over with General William Ward, US Administration Israeli-Palestinian conflict settlement coordinator, who is responsible for American assistance in training Palestinian security forces-at any rate, related information has not reached him.
The State Department speaker pointed out an interest in Israeli-Palestinian peace the USA and Russia share, as their teamwork on the Middle East mediator quartet (the US, UN, EU and Russia) shows. He pointed to regular US-Russian consultations on the best ways to promote the conflicting parties' goodwill for peace.
