"Mitchell offers new offers of peace to Abbas process" (Jerusalem Post)

12/15/2010 10: 07 U.S. Middle East George Mitchell Tuesday Special Envoy proposes a set of "informal" Palestinians in the efforts to move the process of peace by Nabil Abu Rudaina, spokesperson of the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, reports radio ideas of the army.

An article appeared in the newspaper al-Hayat based in London Wednesday morning said that the Mitchell makes no warranty U.S. to meeting Tuesday night in Ramallah with Abbas.

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According to al-Hayat, Palestinian officials said that Mitchell had suggested that the Egypt and the Jordan are included in the discussion on the borders, and that a "fair" solution could be sought for refugees, water and claim on Jerusalem.

The report notes however offers Mitchell cover not removing Israel its 1967 borders, or Jerusalem - is.

No later than Wednesday Palestinian delegation to meet with a delegation of Egypt in Cairo, in advance of the talks on the peace process should take place by the Arab League.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the two delegations would take the United States present details of its vision solution Israeli and Palestinians.

After Mitchell meeting with Abbas Tuesday, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinian side has presented Mitchell with its point of view, in particular, that the peace talks based on international decisions ordering a Palestinian State be established with the 1967 borders.

Mitchell arrived in the region on Monday to discuss the issues database separately with each side in the hope that gaps could be reduced and lead restarted negotiations.

The question issue to tackle first has long been key points of dispute between the parties, with the Palestinians want first emphasis on borders and Jerusalem, Israel on refugees, recognition and security.

The sequence is important because Israel feared that if the Palestinians get what they want on the issue of the border, they are not next to one of the issues until later, as refugees.

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Assad says peace talks should not focus on institutions (Jerusalem Post)

 
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12/09/2010 19 H 35, Syrian President Bashar Assad Thursday said that between Israel and Palestinian peace talks should not focus on the issue of settlements, echoing the position of the United States adding Israel was not a partner for peace "."

Assad, who met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss stalled the process of peace in the Middle East along Iraq and Lebanon, made his comments journalists in Paris.

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"We are against putting colonies at the peace talks" Assad said. "If we want to talk about peace, we speak of legal rights, on the land restitution and doesn't talk about colonies".

The direct talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed on the refusal of Israel freezing the construction of the colony, which Palestinian say must be frozen before may resume negotiations. Philip j. Crowley, the u.s. Department of State spokesman said Thursday that the United States had recognized that persuade Israel to stop Jewish settlements on the disputed West Bank territory had become "an end in itself rather than a means to end."

Sarkozy and Assad discussed tensions in the Lebanon which grew in a probe of the United Nations on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, in the middle of the possibility that members of the group Hezbollah Muslim Shia the Lebanon can be put in charge, 2005. The movement, supported by the Syria is a partner in the Government of national unity of the Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

"Nobody wants to a confrontation between the Lebanese people," said Assad. "Nobody wants to troubled civilians."

Assad said that he "didn't intrusion with the Lebanon national issues" and refused to make any other comments.

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