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Rice pushes Israeli-Palestinian peace despite mounting odds
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Sunday for the Middle East in a new bid to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by January 2009 despite mounting odds.
In her seventh visit to the region since the Annapolis peace process was launched in November last year, Rice will arrive in Israel on Monday for talks with top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.
Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice's talks would include senior Israeli and Palestinian officials and would cover "ongoing efforts to create positive and lasting peace in the region and progress towards the shared goal of a peace agreement in 2008."
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP on August 17 that Rice will meet with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas,...
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