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Clinton: Time ripe for peace in Mideast
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September 15, 2010, Wednesday
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CONVENING a new round of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the "time is ripe" for a Mideast peace deal.
Clinton sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to tackle the most immediate dispute between the two sides: a soon-to-expire curb on new construction for Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Palestinians want the curb extended beyond the current September 26 deadline, but Netanyahu has suggested at least some of the restraints will be lifted.
Clinton said the Obama administration believes Israel should extend the moratorium, but she also said it would take an effort by both sides to find a way around the problem.
"We recognize that an agreement that could be forged between the Israelis and the Palestinians ... that would enable the negotiations to continue is in the best interests of both sides," she said.
Clinton spoke with reporters yesterday during a flight from Washington to Egypt for the latest round of the current Mideast peace talks, which began earlier this month in Washington. After her arrival early yesterday, she met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before separate sit-downs with Abbas and Netanyahu.
Although some analysts caution that any peace deal faces daunting obstacles, Clinton has said an initial round of talks in Washington on September 2 generated some momentum.
They were the first face-to-face talks between the two sides in nearly two years.
Clinton sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to tackle the most immediate dispute between the two sides: a soon-to-expire curb on new construction for Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Palestinians want the curb extended beyond the current September 26 deadline, but Netanyahu has suggested at least some of the restraints will be lifted.
Clinton said the Obama administration believes Israel should extend the moratorium, but she also said it would take an effort by both sides to find a way around the problem.
"We recognize that an agreement that could be forged between the Israelis and the Palestinians ... that would enable the negotiations to continue is in the best interests of both sides," she said.
Clinton spoke with reporters yesterday during a flight from Washington to Egypt for the latest round of the current Mideast peace talks, which began earlier this month in Washington. After her arrival early yesterday, she met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before separate sit-downs with Abbas and Netanyahu.
Although some analysts caution that any peace deal faces daunting obstacles, Clinton has said an initial round of talks in Washington on September 2 generated some momentum.
They were the first face-to-face talks between the two sides in nearly two years.
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