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| Obama to hold joint talks with Netanyahu, Abbas |
| 2009-09-21 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Sunday an invitation by the American president for a trilateral meeting after the White House made a surprise announcement amid stalled efforts at resuming talks. The three-way meeting in New York -- on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting -- will seek "to lay the groundwork for the relaunch of negotiations, and to create a positive context for those negotiations so that they can succeed," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. A statement from Netanyahu's office Sunday said the he "warmly accepts the invitation." Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Abbas had accepted the invitation and accused Israel however of blocking the resumption of peace negotiations that have been stalled since December. "We hope that this meeting will be an opportunity for President Obama to listen to the different points of view and to understand who is blocking the negotiations," Erakat said. "It is Netanyahu who refuses the call by Obama to resume negotiations on the basis of international resolutions and the 'roadmap', and we hope that the American president will force the parties to apply them," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The odds of success are low, so with that in mind, and also the threat of global warming on our minds, ma I humbly suggest that they have a video conference in their respective offices. It will save tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel, which would otherwise go to producing many tons of the dreaded CO2. Talk the talk and walk the walk. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-09-21 19:36 |