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Clinton prompts Netanyahu on peace talks
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to clear hurdles to restarting direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, her spokesman said Friday.
In Brussels, European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said in a letter seen by AFP that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is very close to agreeing to direct talks with Israel, which have been suspended for 20 months.
In what amounts to quickening Middle East diplomacy, "Clinton continued the US push for peace in the Middle East last (Thursday) evening with calls to regional leaders," her spokesman Philip Crowley said on Twitter.
Crowley said the chief US diplomat discussed with "Netanyahu issues to be resolved for direct negotiations to begin."
Netanyahu supports a resumption of direct talks, but without pre-conditions, such as a halt to Jewish settlement activity.
Crowley said Clinton also spoke about "negotiation details" with foreign ministers Nasser Judeh of Jordan and Ahmed Abul Gheit of Egypt, mediating countries are the only Arab states to have signed peace treaties with Israel.
She spoke with the key players after US Middle East envoy George Mitchell returned Wednesday to Washington after meetings in Jerusalem with Netanyahu and talks in Ramallah, West Bank with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
Crowley said Wednesday the two sides had moved closer toward restarting the talks.
But he said details about how negotiations would proceed need to be ironed out before a resumption of direct talks that broke off in December 2008 when Israel invaded the Gaza Strip to stop Hamas militant rocket fire.
Israel and the Palestinians have held indirect "proximity" talks since May.
In her letter to the 27 EU foreign ministers, Ashton wrote that Abbas "has requested a few more days for final consultations with Arab partners as well as with the Fatah and PLO executive bodies."
She was referring to Fatah, the moderate wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which is led by Abbas. Abbas is president of the US-backed Palestinian Authority that runs affairs in the West Bank.
Abbas "should be in a position to give a definitive answer by Sunday or early next week," Ashton wrote.
She said the direct talks could begin "later in August" after a statement from the diplomatic Quartet "early next week," one that would "reaffirm" their statement on March 19.
In that statement the Quartet called on Israel to halt all settlement construction and for the two sides to resume final status talks with the goal of reaching a peace deal in 24 months.
The Quartet is composed of the European Union, the United States, the United Nations and Russia, which have produced a roadmap that calls for a Palestinian state to live in peace alongside a secure Israel.
In Ramallah, Abbas aide Nimr Hamad told AFP the Palestinians "are waiting for a statement from the Quartet to take the appropriate decision on direct negotiations."
He said: "The Quartet should meet or issue a statement to invite the two parties, Israelis and the Palestinians, to enter into direct negotiations.
"We hope the statement will include some important points that were in the previous Quartet statement issued in March."
The Palestinian Authority wants East Jerusalem -- the mainly Arab half of the Holy City that Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and then annexed -- to serve as the capital of a future state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
However, the Islamist militant group Hamas seized Gaza from Fatah control following bloody battles in 2007.
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