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Netanyahu Offers to Hold Direct Talks with Palestinian President in Paris


(France 24) Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French peace initiative as he met French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris. "It can still be called the French initiative because you would host this genuine effort for peace," Netanyahu said. "But here's the difference: I will sit alone, directly, with President Abbas in the Elysee palace or anywhere else that you choose." Netanyahu has regularly called for direct talks and offered to meet Abbas, and he reiterated his argument on Monday that peace would not be achieved through "international diktats."
2016-05-24 00:00:00
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