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UN chief to host quartet meeting on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Xinhua, September 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will host a quartet meeting aiming to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Sept. 30 during the upcoming 70th General Assembly, said a spokesperson Friday.

The meeting will be held in New York. Invited to this meeting are the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, the Secretary of State of the United States, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, according to a note of the spokesperson.

Moreover, the UN chief is also inviting the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, as well as the Foreign Ministers of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to join the meeting.

The Middle East Quartet is comprised of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia. Negotiations between Israel and Palestine have been stalled since the United States failed to broker a peace agreement in early 2014. Endite