Quartet report on Mideast peace still in early stages
(Worthy News) – In what will likely ease tensions in Jerusalem, a senior Obama administration official told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that the upcoming report on the status of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Quartet is still months away and that few points had actually been drafted on paper.
Envoys of the Quartet – comprised of the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – are meeting in Vienna this week to negotiate language for the report, which is expected to offer a brief synopsis of where the decades-old crisis currently stands.
While no timeline has been set for the report’s release, the delay of a parley on the peace process organized by France – intended to lay the groundwork for a milestone international peace conference later this year– has provided the Quartet with more time to prepare the document, which is meant, in part, to supplement the Paris initiative. [ … Read More (Source) ]