Obama invites Abbas to Washington for talks
U.S. President Barack Obama has invited acting Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas to meet with him in Washington, officials in Ramallah said Monday.
The Palestinian officials said that the meeting was due to take place sometime after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own talks with Obama in early March. An exact date has not yet been set, but the invitation was received by the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah.
Given the lack of progress in the PA talks with Israel, there had been some expectation in Ramallah that such an invitation would be forthcoming.
Israeli daily Haaretz claims that despite the pessimism felt by the PA authorities after the most recent round of talks between Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris last week, another round was scheduled to take place next week between the PA negotiators and Kerry’s team.
Abbas said following last week's discussions that the American diplomacy had failed so far to obtain a framework agreement that could serve as the basis for negotiations and a peace accord.
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