Photo: Mrs Clinton was speaking after meeting the Jordanian foreign minister. Image from the BBCClinton Urges Mideast Peace Talks Without Preconditions -- Voice of America
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday met the foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt and urged a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations as soon as possible and without preconditions. U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, preparing for a new diplomatic push on the issue, says he wants to see a peace accord concluded within two years, if not sooner.
Clinton's meetings with her Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts signaled the start of a new U.S. push on the Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking front that for the first-time includes a specific time-frame.
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