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| Israel, Egypt hold summit on renewed ME peace |
| 2010-05-04 |
| Leaders of Israel and Egypt met Monday to discuss the renewal of the Middle East peace process ahead of US-backed indirect negotiations between the Palestinians and the Jewish state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks with regional broker President Hosni Mubarak in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh ‘focused on the renewal of the peace process,' the premier's office said. The closed-door talks took place ‘in a positive and constructive atmosphere,' the Israeli leader's office said in a statement issued after the almost 90-minute encounter. The leaders, who made no comments to reporters at the resort, ‘reviewed Egyptian and international efforts to prepare the ground for the indirect talks ... aimed at a two-state solution,' Egypt's official MENA news agency said. Their talks were focused on the launch expected within days of indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, a process suspended since the Gaza war of December 2008-January 2009. The Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al Ahram reported on Monday that Mubarak would tell Netanyahu his government should stop issuing threats against Syria and Lebanon. |
| Posted by:Steve White |