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17:43, July 06, 2007 |
Russia hopes that the Middle East Quartet ministerial meeting will be held on July 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
"We hope that a meeting of the Middle East Quartet will take place despite obstacles put by some countries," Lavrov told the Itar-Tass news agency. "The Quartet meeting will be held this month in the region."
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said a meeting of special envoys from the Middle East Quartet (Russia, the European Union, the United States and the United Nations) will be held in London on July 10.
"Russia will be represented by the Russian foreign minister's special envoy for the Middle East settlement, Ambassador at Large Sergei Yakovlev," Kamynin said.
Envoys would "discuss a wide range of issues, including the situation in the region, and concretize a possible date for a ministerial meeting," Russia's envoy Yakovlev said.
Meanwhile, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Marc Otte said the Quartet at the ministerial level could meet on July 16, although no final decision on the date has been made yet. Active consultations on the issue were in progress and the meeting will be held in one of the countries of the region, he added.
The Quartet meeting had been scheduled for June 26-27 in Cairo, but was postponed because of the worsening situation in Palestine. Instead, a working meeting of the Quartet was held in Jerusalem on June 26.
The Middle East Quartet on June 27 named Tony Blair as their representative to promote peace in the region shortly after he stepped down as British prime minister.
Source: Xinhua
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