No Progress in Middle East Talks
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The first peace talks in six years between the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians took place today without any apparent progress beyond an agreement to meet again.
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The U.N. Security Council, despite negotiating for much of the week, failed to reach agreement late Friday night on a statement on the safety of people along the chaotic Gaza-Egypt border.
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The planned coalition between Israel&#39;s two main political parties has been delayed by a disagreement in talks, the BBC reported.
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A top UN official said it was a &quot;bad month&quot; for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: more violence, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister apparently backing away from an international peace plan, and the Palestinians still far from implementing badly needed reforms
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No agreement has been reached in the negotiation between Northern Ireland&#39;s Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP and its rival Sinn Fein, to resume peace talks.
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Developments Thursday about the Middle East fighting:
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No agreement to send a special envoy to the Middle East. No London peace talks. So what did Britain gain from the invitation to the Oval office?
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JERUSALEM -- The second summit in a month between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, encouraged by US officials as a way to nurture their fledgling dialogue, produced little progress yesterday. A Palestinian participant called it "difficult."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Jordan that talks on a unity government with Hamas have hit a "dead end" and he will pursue other options, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday.
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A Mideast peace summit designed to open a new chapter for Israelis and Palestinians fed up with violence concluded Monday with no new agreements and a pledge to keep talking.
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The second summit in a month between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, encouraged by U.S. officials as a way to nurture their fledgling dialogue, produced little progress on Sunday. A Palestinian participant called it "difficult."
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia will probably skip a Mideast peace conference called by President Bush if it doesn't tackle substantive issues such as the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, the kingdom's foreign minister said yesterday.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace negotiations beyond a vague promise to meet again.
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Comment is free: Sami Abdel-Shafi: Any progress in the Middle East must begin with building a peace among Palestinians.
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Europe failed to reach a deal with Iran   on halting nuclear enrichment during talks in Berlin on   Thursday, but progress was made and further discussions will   take place, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said.
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The leaders of Cyprus's divided communities failed to make progress on Wednesday in relaunching stalled peace talks harming Turkey's EU accession bid.
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Apart from President Bush's reassurances of unwavering support for Palestinian statehood, there is little his administration is set to do in the short term to try to break the Middle East deadlock.