Bill Clinton: “Peter, you asked a specific question. Of course, the Prime Minister's already addressed this. They clearly have very…”

“Peter, you asked a specific question. Of course, the Prime Minister's already addressed this. They clearly have very high level contacts already established. And what I said to him, I'd be glad to say to you in public. I said, ``I think it's critical to do that, and I think the more contact, the better.'' I said what I said here, that I have been impressed by the increasing--not only the increasing will but the increasing capacity of Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to run their own affairs in security and in other areas. There's a world of difference in their ability to do this between now and 1993. And I believe that making sure that Israel and the Palestinians were on the same page, understood each other, and made the maximum number of agreements about how they were going to proceed is critical to keeping the peace process going. The details of it, I have--you've heard the Prime Minister comment on that, and that's a decision for them to make. We have one more question over here.”