UPDATED: A Brookings Press Briefing on Bush's Trip to the Middle East: Will the 'Road Map' Revive the Peace Process?

6/3/2003

From: Brookings Office of Communications, 202-797-6105 or communications@brookings.edu

News Advisory:

WHEN: Thursday, June 5, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

WHERE: -- PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION -- The Brookings Institution Zilkha Room 1775 Massachusetts Ave. Washington, D.C.

Moderator: JAMES B. STEINBERG, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Panelists: MARTIN S. INDYK Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

FLYNT LEVERETT Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

KENNETH M. POLLACK Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

After President Bush's trip to the Middle East, a panel of Brookings experts will assess his meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan and with Arab leaders in Egypt.

The Brookings specialists also will discuss the reconstruction effort in Iraq and the difficulty in finding weapons of mass destruction-and address the question of whether the conflict in Iraq will interfere with U.S. efforts to broker a peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

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