Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Top U.S. - officials in Syria, as Clinton has pursued peace in the Middle East, "many areas"

Hillary Clinton announced yesterday that Washington will consist of two senior officials in Syria for talks "in the clear signs of further easing of U.S. policy.

U. S. Secretary of State, meets Israeli leaders in Jerusalem, said he could not predict whether the talks. But he added: "We do not participate in discussions on the establishment of a chain. There should be an objective for them to be certain advantages for the United States and our allies."

U.S. said Jeffrey Feltman, Principal State Department Middle East diplomat, who would travel to Damascus to Dan Shapiro in the White House National Security Council. Feltman met last week for almost two hours with the Syrian Embassy in Washington, the highest level contact between the countries since the beginning of the government Obama.

Washington recalled its ambassador to Damascus in 2005 after the assassination in Beirut of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. But the Obama administration should reconsider its policy towards Syria, and was considering sending ambassador back. On Monday at a conference on aid to Palestinians in Egypt, Clinton shook hands and spoke briefly with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.

Clinton came after the announcement, she met with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. He also met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and opposition leader and likely next Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Clinton said Monday he wants to achieve peace between Israel and the Arab world in many fronts, that they can get Israel and Syria to talk. Some leaders of Israel believed that the agreement with Syria would be easier to achieve a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Nevertheless, in all visibility, Netanyahu made at the beginning of negotiations with Syria, abandoning the Golan Heights to Syria, which Israel captured in 1967.

Netanyahu, who is likely to be in a narrow, right-wing government is also short for the two states to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Clinton said that an independent Palestinian state was "inevitable" that the new Israeli Government against the dollar - Administration. Clinton said one of the two States in the operation "in the best interests of Israel."

"The United States is firmly committed to achieving the two-State solution, at each step of the way, he said." The need for cooperation in dealing with a two-state solution is inevitable. "

It was not a criticism of Israel, at a time than three weeks after the election of a new government is still in training, and proposed a "relentless" support for Israel's security. She once again spoke against rocket attacks by militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and said that can not be regarded as a "permanent ceasefire", the militias during their attacks. "There is no doubt that any country, including Israel, can not monitor its territory and people, rocket attacks," he said.

Clinton meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the occupied West Bank tomorrow.

Israeli officials were willing to talk to Clinton about the nuclear ambitions of Iran, Israel, as one of the biggest problems in the region.

The newspaper Haaretz said that Israeli officials "red lines" in negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Israel said that he wants a tightening of sanctions, while the dialogue is happening, and an action plan for the development of U.S. - Russia, France, Germany and Great Britain advance to decide how to act if the talks do not. Israel also wants the time limit for the negotiations said.

Clinton said she was with the United States with Israel in its approach to Iran. "When we talk about engagement with Iran, not to be confused in any way. Our goal remains the same: to keep and to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as well as continued funding of terrorism," he said.

"What we do well, based on consultations with our friends and Israel, especially Israel."

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