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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Abbas, Trump’s peace envoy talk of ‘how to make progress toward peace’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt ends a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by tweeting that the two discussed “how to make progress toward peace.”
The two met in Ramallah Tuesday afternoon, one day after Greenblatt met with Netanyahu as part of the Trump White House’s bid to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Greenblatt tweets: “Just met with Palestinian President Abbas. We had a positive, far-ranging exchange about the current situation.”
https://twitter.com/jdgreenblatt45/status/841649750483046400
And adds: “President Abbas & I discussed how to make progress toward peace, building capacity of Palestinian security forces & stopping incitement.”
https://twitter.com/jdgreenblatt45/status/841649781382483968
The Times of Israel Community.