She favours an agreement that solves all final status issues, not a phased one.
If the final status process is held up, theoretically the cadets will graduate as KPC lieutenants.
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"Only direct negotiations to settle final status issues will lead to this outcome, " Ms Rice said.
Jaser might have too, except that he racked up a criminal record while awaiting his final status ruling.
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Those are -- many of these are final status issues that can only be worked out through direct talks.
Throughout, the Bush administration gave Mr. Sharon full support for his actions against terror and on final status issues.
"Our objective all along has been to re-launch meaningful final status negotiations in a context that offers the prospect of success, " Mr Mitchell said.
"It remains our long-standing policy to oppose activities by either party in the West Bank and Gaza that prejudge final status negotiations, " he said.
It is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities.
But Abbas is under pressure at home not to attend the conference unless it deals with the so-called "final status issues, " the thorniest problems dividing Israelis and Palestinians.
Olmert and Abbas said they would tell negotiating teams to "conduct direct and ongoing negotiations on all final status" and core issues, the prime minister's office said.
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The Bush administration, like the Clinton administration, believes the embassy should not be moved until the Israelis and Palestinians reach a settlement on the final status of Jerusalem.
These negotiations are intended to resolve all final status issues.
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This is because, as we have said time and time again, the United States strongly opposes efforts to address final status issues at the United Nations rather than in direct negotiations.
One is the left wing option presented by Mr. Peretz and that is, to go for a final status agreement, hoping that peace in our time, peace next year is possible.
While UN recognition would have largely symbolic value, the Palestinians argue that it would strengthen their hands in peace talks with Israel, especially on the final status issues that divide them.
Talks on the final status of Kosovo are due to begin in 2005, if the province's 1.8m ethnic Albanians and 100, 000 Serbs can show progress towards internationally required standards of governance.
Clinton said that Barak would travel to Washington, most likely next week, so the two could meet to discuss how to reach final status negotiations in the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The refugee issue has proved so difficult that it was put off by the two sides to be tackled as part of any eventual final status discussions under the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Its final status and territorial shape can be left vague, matters perhaps for a conference of interested parties in ten years or so, when, who knows, other Balkan boundaries, maybe including Bosnia's, can be redrawn.
We think that coming to the table, coming back to the table, developing the type of confidence and trust that both sides need in these proximity talks, is important to building a process to getting to those final status issues.
Clinton and Hastert's telephone conversation took place as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators engaged in another day of long and difficult talks aimed at forging a lasting peace and permanent division of territory, with their arduous talks at Camp David reportedly stalled over the issue of the final status of the city of Jerusalem.
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Among these, your government has stated that the barrier being erected by Israel should be a security rather than political barrier, should be temporary rather than permanent, and therefore not prejudice any final status issues including final borders, and its route should take into account, consistent with security needs, its impact on Palestinians not engaged in terrorist activities.
And he restated America's backing for final-status talks on a Palestinian state (see article).
Jerusalem's future is possibly the most difficult of the difficult decisions awaiting the final-status negotiators.
He, on the other hand, is prepared to do so, but he wants some of it rolled into the final-status talks.
Nor, given the position of successive Israeli governments, can Mr Arafat promise anything from the final-status talks, except, perhaps, a vow not to renounce the right of return.
The Lebanese may believe that it is better to have Fatah in control of the camps than no one at all, especially during the volatile period of the final-status talks.
He is very much an active diplomat, and responsible for driving home a final settlement for the status of Kosovo.
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