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Kerry Says Abbas Committed to Pursuing Talks with Israel
[An Nahar] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is committed to pursuing peace talks with Israel despite the unresolved issue of Israeli settlement building, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said here Tuesday. "I'll be talking to president Abbas today ... and he is committed to continuing to come to the negotiation because he believes that negotiation is what will resolve this issue," Kerry said in Brasilia. "Let me make it clear. The policy of the United States with respect to all settlements, is that they are illegitimate," he told a presser after talks with his Brazilian counterpart Antonio Patriota. "But, that said, (Israeli) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was completely up front with me and with president Abbas that he would be announcing some additional (settlement) building in places that will not affect the peace map, that will not have any impact on the capacity to have a peace agreement," the U.S. chief diplomat said. Posted by: Fred 2013-08-14 |
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