{"id":198394,"date":"2006-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=198394"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:35:32","slug":"auto-insert-198394","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198394\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional partners to join major Middle East parley at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ news item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regional partners to join major Middle East parley at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters<\/strong> <\/p><\/div>\n

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8 May 2006 – <\/i>A Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ spokesman announced today that the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan will participate in tomorrow’s high-level meeting of the of the Middle East diplomatic Quartet, the partnership of the United Nations, European Union (EU), Russia and the United States that is seeking a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <\/p><\/div>\n

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On Friday, it was announced that Quartet principals would include US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, with the EU represented by Javier Solana, its High Representative for a Common Foreign and Security Policy and Ursula Plassnik, Foreign Minister of Austria – which currently holds the EU Council presidency – as well as European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero Waldner. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the other principal Quartet members will meet with the regional ministers tomorrow morning before holding a separate meeting in the afternoon. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Following their meetings, the principals are expected to give a press conference at 5:00 p.m. <\/p><\/div>\n

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The meetings come just two weeks after the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Alvaro de Soto, warned the Security Council in his latest monthly update that the Middle East had reached a volatile juncture, with donors balking at funding the Hamas-led Palestinian Government, tensions between that administration and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, and continued settlement expansion by Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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