ME peace deal unlikely in 2008
October 4, 2008 JENIN, West Bank (AFP) - A Middle East peace deal is unlikely by the end of the year, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Saturday, while urging Israelis and Palestinians to continue US-backed talks.
“We were supposed to get the document, not a final result but something, before the end of the year. But now we all know it will take a little bit longer,” Kouchner told reporters in the West Bank town of Jenin.
“I don’t know if we will see the Palestinian state before the end of the year, but I know this is absolutely a key and necessary " we will get the Palestinian state.”Kouchner made the remarks after meeting Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the start of a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied territories.
Fayyad praised France, which holds the rotating European Union presidency, for its support of US-backed peace talks relaunched last November, calling Kouchner a “friend of the Palestinian people.”
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