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From the Liveblog of
Monday, May 23, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Monday, May 23, 2016
PM nixes French plan, offers to meet Abbas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects a multilateral French peace initiative in a meeting with his French counterpart, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says he will speak to President Francois Hollande about Netanyahu’s proposal.
Direct negotiations with the Palestinians are “the only way to proceed to peace,” Netanyahu says, and offers “a different French initiative” of face-to-face talks with Abbas in Paris.
Valls is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
— AFP
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