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Moscow to Host Middle East Peace Quartet
The plans are that the Middle East Peace Quartet (of the United States, EU, U.N. and Russia) will meet in Moscow in the spring of 2009.
The respective decision was made by results of the meeting in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh attended by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
The meeting in Moscow will be a move towards settlement of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov specified after the Sharm El-Sheikh event.
Lavrov had an hour and a half conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice November 8. The parties mostly deliberated on the worldwide security, including deployment of U.S. missile defense components in Europe.
The meeting was efficient, the U.S. Department of State commented on Rice-Lavrov get-together. The parties discussed a wide range of issues related to Sochi Declaration that U.S. President George Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin signed April 6, 2008.
Lavrov also expressed general satisfaction with Sharm El-Sheikh event, pointing out that the United States manifested the desire to revive cooperation with Russia frozen after the military conflict in Georgia. As to deployment of the U.S. missile defense components in Europe, the RF minister went on, the respective issues would be agreed on with the new administration of the United States.
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