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Ban encourages Israel-Palestine peace talks
New York, Apr 15 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly encouraged Israel and Palestine to remain "constructively engaged" in ongoing efforts towards achieving a two-State solution during separate phone calls over the weekend with the leaders of both sides.
“The purpose of the calls was to discuss the ongoing efforts to extend the negotiations towards a final peace agreement between Israel and Palestine,” Ban’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters in New York.
The two sides resumed negotiations last August following efforts by United States Secretary of State John Kerry. Direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians had stalled in September 2010, after Israel refused to extend its freeze on settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory.
In his conversations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, the Secretary-General “strongly encouraged both sides to remain constructively engaged in the talks,” said Dujarric.
“He expressed his hope that both leaders will seize the current opening created by US efforts to find a way forward to achieve the two-State solution.”
(Father and son standing with their belongings following the latest demolitions in the West Bank, which displaced 68 people. Photo: UNRWA)
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