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Clinton, Abbas Hold ‘Productive’ Talks in Paris

Posted on 7/7/2012 by

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she had held “productive” talks in Paris with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

AFP reported that during the “candid and productive meeting,” Clinton said the two “discussed how to build on his exchange of letters” with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

“I underscored that the United States remains absolutely committed to the goal of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on two states with two peoples based on peace and security,” Clinton told reporters.

Clinton, who met Abbas on the sidelines of a Friends of Syria meeting hosted in the French capital,

Article source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157588

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