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US Mideast envoy fails to strike settlement deal
AFP - Saturday, September 19
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A settler walks past a construction site for a new housing project at the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near the West Bank city of Nablus. US envoy George Mitchell appeared to have failed to secure a key deal on Jewish settlements aimed at paving the way for a resumption of Middle East peace negotiations.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - – US envoy George Mitchell appeared Friday to have failed to secure a key deal on Jewish settlements aimed at paving the way for a resumption of Middle East peace negotiations.
The former senator shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday, after having met with both leaders earlier this week.
He has been trying to wrest a compromise on the thorny issue that would have led to a three-way meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas and US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of next week's UN General Assembly.
"Mitchell told us he did not reach an agreement with the Israelis on freezing settlements," key Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told reporters after Mitchell held talks with Abbas in the occupied West Bank.
Mitchell met with Abbas after huddling with Netanyahu in the morning and was to hold a second meeting with the premier in Jerusalem later in the day.
He has been aiming to get some kind of an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction that would be acceptable to the Palestinians and enable the resumption of peace talks that were suspended in late December.
Netanyahu has so far rebuffed US calls to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, and Palestinians are sticking to their demand for such a halt before negotiations can resume.
Abbas told Mitchell that "the issue of a settlement halt is not up for compromise," Erakat said.
Mitchell, who was involved in brokering the 1998 Good Friday agreements that ended decades of strife in Northern Ireland, was due to continue his efforts to find the elusive compromise before the UN meeting.
"We hope that a comprehensive agreement on all issues can be found and senator Mitchell is deploying all his efforts toward that end," Erakat said.
Mitchell has been in the region for nearly a week, urging all parties to "take responsibility" for peace amid US efforts to secure a comprehensive regional deal to resolve the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict.
"The United States is asking all the parties, Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states to take responsibility for peace through actions that will help create a positive context for the relaunch of negotiations," he said on Thursday after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
On Monday, Netanyahu repeated he had no intention of implementing a complete settlement freeze, saying any halt would be temporary, would not extend to east Jerusalem and would exclude some 2,500 units already under construction.
Mitchell said at the start of his latest tour that the United States shared a "sense of urgency" for peace talks to resume before the end of September.
Standing in the way are Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land -- home to half a million Israelis, viewed as illegal by the international community, and a key obstacle to reaching a peace deal.
Obama's administration has been working towards a comprehensive peace package that would see Israel strike deals with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon, and Arab countries normalise relations with the Jewish state.
Israelis and Palestinians resumed negotiations in November 2007 after a nearly seven-year hiatus, but the talks made little visible progress and were suspended in late December after Israel launched its war in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
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