(VOVworld) – Tel Aviv rejects Paris’ initiative to hold an international conference on Middle East peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French Foreign Minister Marc Ayrault on Sunday.
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Netanyahu’s office said: ‘Any other diplomatic initiative distances the Palestinians from direct negotiations.’ (Photo: David Vaaknin/Imago/Barcroft Media)
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Netanyahu said the only way for Israel and Palestine to achieve peace is direct negotiations between the two sides without any preconditions.
Under the French initiative proposed in January by former Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in which France would hold a foreign ministers conference on May 30th attended by the Middle East Quartet (the US, Russia, the UN, and the EU), the Arab League, and 20 other countries, but without the participation of Israel and Palestine. That conference would prepare a second high level conference that would include Israel and Palestine.