Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations, vowing to try to settle core differences within a year and meet every two weeks.
US State Department picture shows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R rear) and Special Envoy George Mitchell (R) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L rear) and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas at Clinton's office. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core differences within a year.
In opening some four hours of talks in Washington on Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the "suspicion and scepticism" leading up to the meetings after scores of previous US administrations tried and failed to help resolve the decades-old Middle East conflict.
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