Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has rejected the right-wing opposition Likud party's demands for a veto over peace and security policies as a condition for its joining an emergency government. We do not intend accepting any Likud veto or any type of diktat, Barak said at a stormy meeting of his Labour party in Tel Aviv. We want to have a true partnership in which decisions are taken together, he added. Barak is trying to woo Likud's hawkish leader Ariel Sharon into a national emergency government and stave off the spectre of early elections following a month of deadly unrest that has led to the virtual collapse of the peace process. But negotiations have faltered over Sharon's demands for a veto over developments on the peace and security fronts. Without a majority in Parliament since July, Barak is scrambling to form a broad government before Parliament returns on Monday. Bureau Report