Clinton Continues Push for Mideast Peace

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Source: AP

Clinton Continues Push for Mideast Peace
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 31, 2009

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is making a new push to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, holding talks Saturday in this Persian Gulf city with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and later in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Clinton was to make a personal plea for the two sides to resume peace talks even as U.S. officials acknowledged they saw little prospect for an immediate breakthrough.

Over the course of the summer, President Barack Obama had hoped for a fast track to renewed peace negotiations, but Clinton reported to him on Oct. 22 that neither side had taken sufficient steps toward resuming the dialogue.

Clinton arrived in Abu Dhabi in the early hours Saturday after completing a three-day visit to Pakistan.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/31/world/AP-ML-Clinton.html

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