Mideast Quartet To Meet In Italy - UN Chief
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon will attend a meeting of the
Middle East diplomatic quartet on the sidelines of a gathering of G8
industrialized countries in Trieste, Italy later this week, his press office
said Tuesday.
The meeting of the Quartet - the European Union, the United Nations, Russia
and the United States - is to take place on Friday on the same day as a G8
ministerial session on Pakistan and Afghanistan, a U.N. statement said.
Also Friday, the Quartet principals are also hoping to meet with members of
the Arab League's follow-up committee on the Arab Peace Initiative.
The 2002 Saudi-inspired peace proposal offers Israel normal relations with
Arab states in return for its withdrawal from land occupied in 1967.
The Quartet has endorsed a roadmap that calls for a viable Palestinian state
coexisting peacefully alongside a secure Israel.
But no tangible progress has been made on resolving the core issues of the
status of Jerusalem, the future borders of a Palestinian state and refugees.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
06-23-091941ET
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