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Article: Mitchell meets Israeli leaders.
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- Aljazeera.net
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- October 8, 2009
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10/8/2009 4:26:54 PM
George Mitchell, the US Middle East envoy, has held talks with Israeli leaders as part of an effort to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
Mitchell met Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, Ehud Barak, the country's defence minister and Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Hours before his meeting with Mitchell, Lieberman said he planned to tell the US envoy that a comprehensive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians was impossible, and that an interim deal was his preferred option.
"Whoever says that it's possible to reach in the coming years a ...