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17 July 2003
World Council of Churches assessment of the 'Road Map'
While welcoming the Middle East Road Map to peace, some reservations were expressed by Peter Weiderud, Director of the WCC's Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), in an assessment distributed today to CCIA members and WCC networks. Weiderud highlights that the Road Map includes "a number of encouraging elements" but "it is far from ideal", and details some of the "vague and disturbing elements in it, as well as significant gaps that need clarification". Weiderud also welcomes the initiative from UN secretary general Kofi Annan to post a peacekeeping force in the area, but he stresses that UN should have "a more active and comprehensive role (…) in the entire process of conflict resolution and not just in peacekeeping".
The full text of the assessment is available at:
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/palestine/roadmapcomments.html
Additional information:
Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363
media@wcc-coe.org
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
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