The Palestinians' interpretation of Oslo envisaged the three redeployments amounting to some 85% of the West Bank.

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It said redeployments and voluntary redundancies meant the actual number of people losing their job in the UK would be fewer than 800.

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Thursday's proposal reinforced guarantees for Ethiopian troop redeployments and Eritrean troop withdrawals in order to avoid further confusion on the battlefield, Mr Ouyahia said.

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In London, England, Pakistani envoy to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan countered the report, noting that winter redeployments are normal and that only police and not the army had their vacation canceled.

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The Americans recognise that if they are to speed things up, they must first get Mr Netanyahu to commit himself to further (and genuine) military redeployments in the West Bank, as promised by his predecessors, allow the Palestinians to open their port and airport in Gaza, and suspend building operations that alter the face of East Jerusalem.

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