Item ELUSIVE PEACE 5/1 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, 2005

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Sir Sherard (Louis) Cowper-Coles, British Ambassador to Israel, 2001-2003, describing the visit of Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister 1997-2007, to Jerusalem, 2001; reaction to Blair’s offer of neutral observers and monitors to Israel, 2002; visit of team including Andrew Coyle, former member of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, to negotiate transfer of Palestinian prisoners from the siege of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem to Cyprus, April 2002; the difficulty of remaining in contact with Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1993-2004, after the USA and Israel ceased official communication, June 2002, and the visit of Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, to the UK, July 2003.