VOL. XL No. 15 14-April-1997

WASHINGTONPelletreau: Candid Views On US Policy Towards The Middle East

The ideal vision of the Middle East that the US would like to see bythe year 2010, whether regarding Arab-Israeli peace, Iraq, Iran or theGulf states, will be difficult to achieve because "neither conditionsin the area nor the policies of regional actors, or for that matter thoseof the US, seem directed toward achieving such ambitious objectives,"according to Ambassador Robert Pelletreau, the...