11 juillet 2011

          The Palestinian Authority on Sunday expressed hope that members of the Quartet – the US, EU, Russia and the UN – would obligate Israel to implement the two-state solution on the ground so the Palestinian state would become the 194th member of the UN. The PA’s appeal came on the eve of a meeting of representatives of the Quartet in Washington to discuss the future of the Middle East peace process and the Palestinian leadership’s intention to ask the UN in September to recognize a... [Lire la suite]

          ‏The foreign ministers of the Middle East Quartet will be meeting today in Washington and are expected to release a statement endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama's May 19th speech on the Middle East, which called for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on the borders of a future state based on pre-1967 lines with agreed-upon land swaps. A senior Israeli official told Kol Yisrael that the Palestinians oppose wording including the phrases "end of conflict" or "end of... [Lire la suite]