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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meeting with US officials Thursday 2 September in Washington, DC, have agreed to hold regular talks, starting in September in the Middle East. They will then meet every two weeks. George Mitchell, US President Barack Obama’s special envoy, announced that the purpose of the scheduled meetings “is to establish the fundamental compromises necessary to enable the parties to then flesh out and complete a comprehensive agreement that will end the conflict and establish a lasting peace.”

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