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Mitchell in Mideast for peace talks
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:56:51 GMT
U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell started a new trip to the occupied territories, in a bid to secure settlement talks between Israeli regime and Palestinians, officials said.

Mitchell will meet Thursday with Israeli regime war Minister Ehud Barak, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

On Friday, he will meet with Israeli regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and over the weekend he will travel to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Mitchell told reporters in occupied territories that he was seeking a quick resumption of peace talks, but Israeli regime voiced pessimism on prospects for a deal.

"We're going to continue with our efforts to achieve an early relaunch of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians," Mitchell told reporters as he met Israeli occupying regime President Shimon Peres in al-Quds.

He said that would be "an essential step" toward comprehensive peace in the region, involving Israeli regime and its neighbors, including Syrian and Lebanon.

Israeli Zionist regime Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said earlier he would tell Mitchell there was no chance of a comprehensive peace deal with the Palestinians for many years.

"I will tell him clearly, there are many conflicts in the world that haven't reached a comprehensive solution and people learned to live with it," Lieberman said.

At a three-way summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in late September, Obama told Netanyahu and Abbas to stop dragging their feet and relaunch negotiations. But observers on both sides expect little momentum from Mitchell's first trip to the region since the New York summit.
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