Moscow Ready to Facilitate Israeli-Palestinian Talks if Sides Find
Compromise
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is ready to help
mediate any talks on the resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflict if the
proposed initiatives satisfy both countries.
22:50 23.09.2016(updated 23:23 23.09.2016)
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NITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — Moscow is ready to help mediate any talks on the
resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflict if the proposed initiatives
satisfy both countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

"We support anything which brings us closer to the resumption of
Israeli-Palestinian talks. For this to happen, any initiative must be
acceptable to both, and when it is acceptable to both parties, they must
agree on what will be the added value," Lavrov said at a press conference
following his address to the UN General Assembly.

"So far, it doesn't seem that the parties are equally eager to consider it.
But we are working with both Israel and Palestine. We have to resume
negotiations anyway, and there might be some meetings between Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas that might be helpful,"
Lavrov added.

In late January, France proposed an international conference to help resume
the stalled Israeli-Palestinian talks. Paris stressed that it would be ready
to recognize Palestine as a state if the talks yielded no results. Israel
rejected the French plan. On June 3, Paris hosted the first meeting of the
world powers on Israeli-Palestinian peace process. No representatives of
either Israel or Palestine were present at the event.