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Kerry to propose framework for Mideast peace deal
By Elise Labott
Secretary of State John Kerry will propose a framework
for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians when
he travels to the region this week.
“During this trip, the secretary will discuss with both
leaders the proposed framework for negotiations,”
deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf
said Monday.
Harf said Kerry’s framework would be guidelines for
permanent status negotiations and would address all
core issues.
Other officials, who briefed reporters before Kerry’s
ninth trip to the region, spoke on the condition of
anonymity so they could be candid about the sensitive
peace talks.
The proposal is based on five months of intensive
consultations with the leaders since the resumption of
the peace process this summer.
“We are not coming in with an American plan that
would be imposed on the parties, but rather we want to
have a detailed consultation with them about these
ideas that have been generated as a result of the
negotiations between the parties themselves,” one of the
officials said. “The secretary’s trip this time is to start to
test those ideas with the two leaders.”
With direct negotiations between the two sides flailing,
the United States seems to have moved into a more
muscular role as mediator by presenting its own
bridging proposals to the parties instead of relying on
the Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate among
themselves, which has born little fruit.
When he visited the region last month Kerry and
retired Gen. John Allen, who has been working on
Israeli security issues, presented Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu with specific and detailed ideas on
how Israel’s security needs in the West Bank could be
addressed in the context of an eventual peace deal with
Palestinians.
Post by: CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter Elise Labott Filed under: Israel • Palestine • Sec. State John Kerry |