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MIDDLE EAST QUARTET MAY MEET SOON - RUSSIA'S LAVROV
Reuters India
Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:53am IST
India
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators may
meet in early November with Israeli and Palestinian participation,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by Interfax news
agency as saying.
The so-called Quartet of the United States, the European Union, Russia
and the United Nations has been attempting to breath life into the
stalled peace process.
"It would be natural that such a meeting should be held in the Middle
East region. At the present time, the conversation is to conduct
this meeting in the first half of November," Interfax quoted Lavrov
as saying in the Armenian capital Yerevan.
Lavrov said the meeting would take place at ministerial level,
Interfax quoted him as saying. Lavrov is on an official visit with
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Armenia.
Israeli and Palestinian diplomats have been attempting to negotiate a
peace deal that could be finalised before U.S. President George W. Bush
steps down in January, though both sides now doubt an agreement can
be reached in this timeframe.
During the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 26, the Quartet issued a
statement saying it favoured holding an international meeting on the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Moscow next year.
Reuters India
Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:53am IST
India
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators may
meet in early November with Israeli and Palestinian participation,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by Interfax news
agency as saying.
The so-called Quartet of the United States, the European Union, Russia
and the United Nations has been attempting to breath life into the
stalled peace process.
"It would be natural that such a meeting should be held in the Middle
East region. At the present time, the conversation is to conduct
this meeting in the first half of November," Interfax quoted Lavrov
as saying in the Armenian capital Yerevan.
Lavrov said the meeting would take place at ministerial level,
Interfax quoted him as saying. Lavrov is on an official visit with
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Armenia.
Israeli and Palestinian diplomats have been attempting to negotiate a
peace deal that could be finalised before U.S. President George W. Bush
steps down in January, though both sides now doubt an agreement can
be reached in this timeframe.
During the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 26, the Quartet issued a
statement saying it favoured holding an international meeting on the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Moscow next year.