Kerry expresses ‘cautious optimism’ after Netanyahu meet

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed “cautious optimism” following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday on defusing spiraling Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

“I would characterize that conversation as one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be some things that could be in the next couple of days put on the table,” Kerry says in Berlin.

United States Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a press conference in Berlin on October 22, 2015 (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)
United States Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a press conference in Berlin on October 22, 2015 (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)

These “would have an impact I hope, on the perceptions of everybody engaged that there is a way to defuse the situation and begin a way forward,” he adds.

— AFP

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