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Second
day of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks begins
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 04:41:46 PM, DPA
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Jerusalem:
A second day of Israeli Palestinian peace negotiations began
Wednesday with a meeting between US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem.
Clinton was slated to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in the afternoon, to be followed immediately by another
direct parley between Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas, who also held two face-to-face meetings Tuesday.
The day of sessions in Jerusalem comes after a day of talks in the
Egyptian Red Sea Resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. They are the second
round of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, launched
in Washington early this month - more than one year after the
Netanyahu government took office.
The Palestinians had initially been reluctant to enter into direct
talks with Netanyahu's right-leaning government. They are also
demanding he extend a moratorium on Israeli construction in the
occupied West Bank, which is due to expire Sep 26.
Clinton was scheduled to make the short journey from Jerusalem to
the West Bank city of Ramallah Thursday for another talk with
Abbas.
In Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, she insisted Israel should not resume
building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit also demanded Israel
extend the building freeze in the West Bank, but Netanyahu has
said he cannot do that.
"Our position has been clear. We refuse any end to the
moratorium," Aboul Gheit told reporters in Sharm el-Sheikh, adding
Arab ministers were set to convene in Cairo Thursday to review the
peace talks.
US envoy George Mitchell was slated to brief reporters at the end
of the Abbas-Netanyahu talks Wednesday evening.
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