Russia hopes Quartet meeting to help resume Israeli-Palestinian talks

Russia hopes Quartet meeting to help resume Israeli-Palestinian talks

MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)

"We have strong hope that decisions made during the Washington meeting of the Quartet (Russia, the United Nations, the European Union and the United States) will help create circumstances for the resumption of the talks aimed at creating an independent, integral, sovereign and democratic Palestinian state to live in peace and security alongside Israel," Lavrov said during talks in Moscow with a visiting delegation from the Palestinian movement Fatah.

Peace between the Israelis and Palestinians can be reached based on internationally recognized and well-known legal principles, Lavrov stressed.

"We will take part in the ministerial meeting of the Quartet... proceeding from these positions," he said.

The Fatah representatives' visit to Moscow is "quite timely," Lavrov said.

"As a country with many friends in the Middle East, as a UN member, and as a participant in the Middle East Quartet, we are interested in helping drive the issue from the dead-lock," the minister said.

Israel maintains the occupation of Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, since the 1967 Six-Day War. Peace negotiations between the sides have come to a standstill, and the Palestinians have threatened to turn to the UN for the recognition of an independent state in September if no progress in talks with the Israelis has been reached by that time.

Israel has rejected a proposal by U.S. President Barack Obama to accept the pre-1967 borders as a basis for talks with the Palestinians, saying that such borders would be "indefensible."

The resumption of stalled talks has also been hampered by a row over East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians have claimed as the capital of their future state. Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "eternal and indivisible" capital.

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MOSCOW, July 5 (Itar-Tass) —— A ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet will be held on July 11 in Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.

“Russia is vitally interested to get things [the negotiating process between Israel and Palestine] moving,” he said. “We shall keep to this stance at a ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet that will take place on July 11 in Washington.”

06:53 05/07/2011ALL NEWS

Lavrov, Palestinian rep to discuss Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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MOSCOW, July 5 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Nabil Saath, a representative of the Central Committee of the FATH party overseeing political issues, will meet in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss prospects of overcoming the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.

Earlier, Palestinian Ambasador to Russia Fayed Mustafa told Itar-Tass that the Palestinian side intended to discuss the situation in the Middle East at the talks in Moscow ahead of the 'quartet' meeting.

“In order to overcome stagnation in the Palestinian-Israeli direction Russia is having active contacts with all the sides concerned,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said.

He added that inter-Palestinian reconciliation would also be a topic for discussion.

“For our part, we are using all the possibilities we have to support the Cairo agreements, and will be ready to render assistance in their earliest realization,” Lukashevich went on to say.

Observers believe that the forthcoming diplomatic fight between Palestine and Israel for the recognition by the United Nations General Assembly of a call for an independent state.

In this context, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made it clear that he could give up the idea of including a call for independence of Palestine in the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly if Israel agrees to resume direct talks on the principles of returning to the 1967 borders with mutually coordinated swap of territories.

For its part, Israel hopes that the forthcoming ‘quartet’ meeting of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations will persuade the Palestinians to put off their appeal to the U.N. General Assembly.

Fatah envoys arrive in Moscow for talks ahead of Quartet meeting

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MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday with a group of Palestinian officials prior to an upcoming meeting of international mediators of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Palestinian delegation is headed by former foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority Nabil Shaath, who is a senior PNA negotiator on Israeli-Palestinian issues.

According to the Russian sources, the agenda of the talks will include a dispute between Fatah and Hamas over the formation of the unity government for the Palestinians.

Fatah and Hamas formally ended their long-running feud in April and agreed to form new cabinet of political independents. However, further negotiations came to a deadlock over President Mahmoud Abbas's insistence that his current prime minister, Salam Fayyad remain at his post in the new government.

Another important issue on the agenda of the talks in Moscow will be the resumption of direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians and the prospects of the future Palestinian state.

The Palestinians want to form an independent state within the 1967 borders before Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

Israel wants Jerusalem to be its "eternal and undivided" capital.

U.S. President Barak Obama proposed in May that Israel and the Palestinians proceed from the 1967 borders in their negotiations. The idea was supported unanimously by the Mideast Quartet of negotiators - Russia, the UN, EU, and the U.S. However, Israel turned down the proposal, saying it would make it vulnerable to potential external threats.

The Mideast Quartet is scheduled to meet in Washington on July 11.

12:24 05/07/2011ALL NEWS

Russia, NATO to test system to avert suicide bomb attacks in 2012.

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ST. PETERSBURG, July 5 (Itar-Tass) —— A Russian-NATO jointly developed security system of transport facilities from suicide bomb attacks will be tested in Paris and St. Petersburg in 2012, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said here on Tuesday.

The cooperation in the struggle against a terrorist threat is on the list of priorities in the relations between Russia and NATO, Rasmussen said in a lecture to the students of the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy.

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