UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is starting...
Quartet will issue a strong statement. First of all, the Quartet has already issued a strong statement condemning this settlement. And I"m sure that this will be reaffirmed by the Quartet meeting,” Ban told RIA Novosti.“However, we will discuss overall situation in the Middle East, including how to facilitate and encourage proximity talks. I believe that this proximity talk should eventually lead to direct negotiations between Israel and Palestinian authorities,” he said.
Talks between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority came to a halt in December 2008, when Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip in a bid to put an end to the firing of homemade rockets at southern Israel by Palestinian militants based in the enclave. The conflict left 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.
Settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, has been the main obstacle to reviving
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