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June 9, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=177862

PA Won't Agree to Direct Talks with Israel

(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh and Hilary Leila Krieger - The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it wouldn't agree to direct negotiations with Israel as long as the proximity talks, which began last month, were not achieving any progress. Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a senior aide to Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Palestinians had recently told U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell that Israel's request to launch direct negotiations was "unacceptable." The Obama administration, however, is expected to make moving to direct talks a central issue in Abbas' White House visit on Wednesday.

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