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Medvedev urges more US action in Mideast peace efforts
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DAMASCUS (AFP) - – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called in Syria on Tuesday for a more active US role in the Middle East peace process saying the situation in the region was "very bad" and risked worsening further.
"In essence, the Middle East peace process has deteriorated," Medvedev said speaking alongside his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad after two days of talks on the first visit to Damascus by a Russian head of state.
"The situation is very, very bad. It's time to do something," the Russian leader said.
"I agree with President Assad, the American side could take a more active position.
"A further heating up of the situation in the Middle East is fraught with an explosion and a catastrophe."
Medvedev's visit comes against the backdrop of a nearly 18-month-old suspension of Turkish-led peace efforts between Israel and Syria and a mounting war of words between the two foes over Israeli accusations that Syria has been arming Lebanon's Hezbollah with Scud missiles.
It also comes as renewed US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians run into difficulties just days after their launch over Israeli settlement expansion in annexed Arab east Jerusalem.
"There is not enough desire" on all sides to find a solution, said Medvedev, whose government is part of the so-called Quartet working for a Middle East settlement
"This desire needs to be stimulated," he said, adding that that was a role that Russia could and would take upon itself.
The Russian leader added that the end result of Middle East peace talks needed to be the liberation of the occupied Arab territories and the creation of an independent Palestinian place that could co-exist peacefully with Israel.
For Syria, the return of the strategic Golan Heights, which Israel seized in the Six-Day War of 1967 and annexed in 1981 in a move never recognised by the international community, is a non-negotiable condition of any peace agreement.
Turkey, Medevdev's next port of call after Damascus, brokered indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel in 2008 in a bid to kickstart US-brokered direct talks.
But they were broken off when Israel launched a devastating offensive against the Gaza Strip in December that year in a move that strained relations with Ankara as well as Damascus.
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