Obama receives Erekat and Livni
Met with U.S. President Barack Obama heads of the two delegations Israeli and Palestinian negotiators Tuesday, a day after the resumption of direct peace talks between them after nearly three years of downtime.
An official at the White House that Obama is "the heads of the two delegations met this morning (Tuesday), in reference to the Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.
It was not immediately clear what the content of the discussion that took place between the three during the closed-door meeting, which was not included on the agenda of the president in the foundation.
Upon taking office in 2009, Obama promised to resume talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but after months of intensive diplomacy could not only convince parties Ballqa for just weeks in September 2010 before the collapse of the talks.
However, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry managed after months of diplomatic efforts to persuade the two sides to hold meetings over nine months to try to find a settlement to the conflict.







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