President Barack Obama on Monday urged Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with
Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in U.S.-brokered negotiations in coming
weeks.
In White House talks overshadowed by the Ukraine
crisis, Abbas pressed for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go ahead
with the scheduled release of a final group of Palestinian prisoners by the end
of March.
“We remain
convinced there is an opportunity,” Obama told reporters as Abbas sat beside
him in the Oval Office. Obama met Netanayahu two weeks ago in Washington and is
trying to narrow gaps between the two sides on a framework for a peace deal
that would extend negotiations beyond an April deadline. Reuters
Zaman Alwasl
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