Cairo, Oct 12: Moscow lobbied today for the UN Security Council to adopt the Middle East peace plan known as the ‘Roadmap’ as a resolution to make it binding on all sides in the conflict.
"We are proposing the 'Roadmap' be adopted by the
Security Council as a binding resolution for all the parties,"
Russia's former envoy to the Middle East, Andrei Vdovin, told
reporters here after talks with Arab League chief Amr Mussa.
He said he hoped such a resolution would give new life to
the ‘Roadmap’, which Moscow drafted along with the United
States, the European Union and the United Nations, but which
has all but collapsed amid a fresh cycle of violence.
Vdovin, on a regional tour to introduce his replacement,
Alexander Kalugin, said there was general "acceptance and
understanding of this proposal" among other members of the
diplomatic quartet.
Bureau Report
