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| Mitchell to meet with Abbas | |
| 2009-01-25 | |
| RAMALLAH -The new US envoy to the Middle East, former senator George Mitchell, will meet with US officials in the region declined to confirm Mitchell’s visit. When appointing Mitchell on Thursday, US President Barack Obama said he would be sending Mitchell “to the region as soon as possible...” The 75-year-old Mitchell, who helped negotiate the 1998 Good Friday agreement that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, is no stranger to the Middle East peace process. At the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000 Mitchell was appointed to head a committee bearing his name tasked with finding ways of ending violence between Israelis and Palestinians. In his report submitted in 2001 he called on both sides to take immediate measures to unconditionally end the violence, but his calls went unheeded.
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| Posted by:Steve White |