Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser Jerusalem, 6 January 1998 PM Netanyahu-U.S. envoy Ross meeting Summary Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Tuesday), 6.1.98 met with U.S. envoy Dennis Ross in his office. At the start of their meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "I am pleased to welcome back Ambassador Ross. His visits are not one-time events, but rather part of a chain of activities being taken by Israel, the United States and the Palestinian Authority in order to advance the peace process towards a peace agreement between us and the Palestinians. This government was elected in order to move the process of achieving real peace forward, a peace with substance and reciprocity. Reciprocity means a meticulous fulfillment of the Palestinian commitments in the Oslo and Hebron accords to the United States and Israel. This is the basis that makes the continued advance of peace possible and we will move forward with it." The American envoy said that his meetings in the region are a continuation of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's recent meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and are meant to lay the groundwork for the two leaders' upcoming visits to Washington. In response to a question by journalists, Prime Minister Netanyahu added, "The defense minister is a senior member of the government and a senior member in the effort that we are all making in order to move the peace process cautiously and responsibly forward. That has been, and will remain, our policy.