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eve of talks between President Obama and the Israeli and the Palestinian leaders, all sides are playing down the chances of a Middle East peace breakthrough. The meeting will take place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Our state department correspondent, Kim Ghattas, reports from Washington.
The White House is making sure not to raise any hopes about the meeting in New York. Robert Gibbs, the spokesman, said no one had grand expectations out of just one meeting. The point was to build on progress made so far, he added. But there appears to be little of that as well. The administration’s special envoy to the Middle East, Senator George Mitchell, just returned empty handed from the region, having tried for weeks to get Israel to agree to a freeze in settlement construction and Arab countries to take steps towards normal relations with Israel.
The suspected former military head of the Basque separatist group ETA has been handed over to Spain by the French authorities. Spanish police want to question the man, known as Txeroki, about a number of ETA attacks in Spain in 2002.
Voting at the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO on its next director general will go to a 5th and final round. After four rounds, two candidates, the Egyptian Cultural Minister Farouk Hosny and the Bulgarian ambassador to France, Irina Bokova, remains tight with an equal number of votes. Mr. Hosny’s suitability has been called into question because of remarks in which he promised to burn any Israeli books he found in Egyptian libraries. He later expressed regret for the comments.
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