{{Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will resume talks on ending their long-standing conflict on August 14 in Jerusalem, the US State Department has said.}}<\/p>\n
The sides held their first peace negotiations in nearly three years in Washington on July 30 in US-mediated efforts to end the conflict of more than six decades. They agreed to try to resolve their differences within nine months.<\/p>\n
Jen Psaki, State Department spokeswoman, said that Martin Indyk, the US mediator, would attend the next round of talks, which will be followed by a meeting in Jericho.<\/p>\n
She said Secretary of State John Kerry, who hosted July’s resumption of the talks, “does not expect to make any announcement in the aftermath of this round of talks”.<\/p>\n
After three years of stalemate in the peace process, last month’s meeting was hailed as a breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Tzipi Livni, Israeli negotiator, and her Palestinian counterpart, Saeb Erakat, held two days of face-to-face dialogue in Washington DC and promised to quickly resume talks in their divided region.<\/p>\n
The rivals hope to reach an agreement on recognising two states living side by side in peace, across a border roughly based on that of 1967, but many thorny issues remain.<\/p>\n
The final status of the city of Jerusalem and of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory are expected to be sticking points.<\/p>\n
Psaki, the State Department spokesperson, said it had expressed its concern to Israel after reports that it was to authorise the building of a thousand new homes for Jewish settlers on Palestinian land.<\/p>\n
Settlement building angers Palestinians, and the peace process has been derailed in the past by disputes over new housing.<\/p>\n
“Our position on settlements has not changed. We do not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity and oppose any efforts to legitimise settlement outposts,” she said. <\/p>\n
The latest direct talks collapsed in late 2010 over Israel’s building of the settlements in the West Bank.<\/p>\n
Source: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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