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International mediators seek to unblock Palestinian-Israeli crisis

Tags: Politics, Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict , Russia, World, News
 
Mar 19, 2010 09:23 Moscow Time
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The four international mediators in a Middle East settlement are meeting in Moscow today to try to unblock the Palestinian-Israeli crisis and set in motion the negotiating process. The meeting is attended by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the topmost diplomats of Russia, the United States and the European Union, and also by the quartet’s special envoy Tony Blair. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that the four were determined to adopt a document that would sum up all previous agreements on direct talks between Israel and Palestine. The basic obstacle in the way to such talks is the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The Palestinians refuse to resume talks before the construction in question is put paid to. But Israel deifies pressure from the United States and says it is prepared only to negotiate a partial and provisional moratorium. Earlier Ban Ki-moon said in an interview with the RIA-Novosti news agency that the quartet would adopt a statement following the Moscow talks to reiterate, among others, its condemnation of Israel’s unlawful building of new settlements on the occupied Palestinian lands.     

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