LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon discuss the future of Israel today during a two-hour meeting. CNN Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna is in Jerusalem this morning with all the details. Hello, Mike.</s>MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Linda, we understand there has been formal contact between the Palestinian authority, President Ariel Sharon, and Israel's new Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon. Yasser Arafat telephoned Mr. Sharon to congratulate him on his election as prime minister. This comes on a day where Sharon is beginning moves to form a new government, deciding what form the government of Israel is going to take in the days and weeks ahead. Will it be a centrist, broad-based government or a right-wing, narrow-based coalition? That's what's being discussed as the transition period get well under way.</s>HANNA: Each incidence of violence could have a direct impact on efforts to resume the peace process. The prime minister-elect, Ariel Sharon, insists that there will be no negotiation until there's an absolute end to the violence. Mike Hanna, CNN, reporting live from Jerusalem.
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