UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that he hopes to meet the Middle East Quarterly again in the next “few weeks” now that the new U.S. president is in the White House .
The Four – the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – have apparently not had a meeting since September 2018.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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“The fact is that we were completely blocked from any kind of peace compromise. We had Israelis and Palestinians who would not talk to each other,” Guterres said in a broadcast interview. with the Washington Post.
President Joe Biden’s new administration supports a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and will overturn a number of decisions made under his predecessor, Donald Trump, an ambassador said U.S. executive to the United Nations to the Security Council last week.
“There is a strong will in the new U.S. administration to play a positive role in creating these conditions for the resumption of a true peace process,” Guterres said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at the White House presentation of Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East
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“I believe it will now be possible to hold a meeting of the Quarter,” he said. “I would like to see it in the next few weeks.”
Palestinians want a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital, the entire area that Israel captured from Egypt and Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. peace Trump, Washington would have recognized Jewish settlements in the area as part of Israel.