Since Rabin's assassination, there has been little progress toward ending the conflict.
Fighting in Gaza continued Friday, despite the apparent progress toward ending it.
Mr. Clinton could waive the restrictions if he made a finding that Azerbaijan had made progress toward ending the blockade.
In the last few days Ethiopia and Eritrea seem to have finally made progress toward ending their two-year war.
But many analysts said the two sides were still far from achieving the mutual trust that would allow meaningful progress toward ending the conflict.
Presumably by more vigorous pursuit of its Millennium Development Goals, whose shaky progress toward ending poverty by 2015 is now subject to mid-term review.
The coalition continues to make good progress toward ending the Iraqi regime, freeing the Iraqi people and disarming the country of weapons of mass destruction.
And secondly, in terms of Bethlehem, I believe we're making good progress toward ending that part of the Israeli incursion.
More than 500 American troops have died in the Mideast in the past year, with little progress toward ending the region's longer-term conflicts and bloodshed.
"The people who will pay for this are the Basques," he said, lamenting the likelihood that progress toward ending four decades of violence would suffer.
But the two sides have made far more progress toward ending the lockout than is widely believed, according to a member of the union delegation who has attended the talks.
