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“Report: Russia Says Abbas, Netanyahu Agree to Meet in Moscow”
by Jpost   
September 8th, 2016

Moscow – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed in principle to meet in Moscow, Interfax news agency reported. It would  be the first meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leader since the two last met officially in 2010.

Abbas said on Tuesday that he had accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to meet Netanyahu in Moscow on Friday in Moscow, but later said the convening had been postponed on Netanyahu's request.

"President Putin has proposed a meeting on September  9 in Moscow. I agreed to this and I was to go to Moscow directly from here," Abbas told a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw.

"Unfortunately yesterday in Jerusalem president Putin's representative and prime minister Netanyahu's representative held a meeting and prime minister Netanyahu's representative proposed to postpone the meeting for later, so there will be no meeting (on September 9)," Abbas said.

On Monday, Netanyahu's office said he was considering the Russian offer, but that Israel would not accept any preconditions to such a meeting. 

During a meeting in Jerusalem with Michael Bogdanov, Russia's special envoy to the Middle East, Netanyahu discussed Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to host the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

According to the Prime Minister's Office, Netanyahu underlined to Bogdanov that he has always maintained the position that he is prepared to meet directly with Abbas, without preconditions, and therefore he was considering the proposed meeting and the timing of such a convening.

The last Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.

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