By Nathan Guttman and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents
05/04/2005

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was expected to bring up
Israel's plan to connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem at her meeting
Monday night with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's advisor, Dov Weissglas,
the State Department said Monday.

The meeting was scheduled to take place after press time. But a State
Department spokeswoman, speaking a few hours before the meeting, said
the plan would definitely be on the agenda.

Her comment came hours after Sharon reportedly told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel should press forward with the
plan despite American and Palestinian objections

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