04/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - At a time when difficult discussions are being held in the United States between Israel and Syria, the Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat announced, on Tuesday, that Israel and the Palestinian Authority had reached an agreement on a new Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Thus, a first withdrawal from 5% of the West Bank territory should take place "in the next 48 hours" and a second, from 6.1% of this territory, on 20 January. (We recall that the Charm el...