Posted on 05/16/2016 4:41:12 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Secretary of State John Kerry is planning to attend the preliminary foreign ministers' meeting that France is convening in advance of a French-sponsored Middle East peace conference, Haaretz reported Monday.
The Palestine Liberation Organization's Saeb Erekat told the newspaper that Kerry has told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas that he plans to attend the summit, to take place in Paris on May 30.
At this stage, however, State Department officials will not confirm that Kerry will be attending the foreign ministers' meeting, and Washington has been reluctant to express support for the French initiative.
For his part, Erekat told Haaretz that Kerry and Abbas spoke by phone three days ago and Kerry made clear his intention to attend the foreign ministers' meeting.
Until now, Kerry hasn't announced whether he'll attend the summit, and made no public statement on his stance about the event, which Jerusalem opposes. In his daily briefing for reporters, noted Haaretz, State Department spokesman John Kirby said no final decision has been made on Kerry's attendance and that the Americans had informed the French that Kerry was not available on May 30.
Kirby acknowledged for the first time, however, that contacts have been underway between the United States and the French over whether the foreign ministers might meet on another date, enabling Kerry to attend.
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He’s a Madame Tussaud’s caricature.
Of course John Vichy Kerry will look for a way to try to pressure Israel to surrender to the terrorists......
Why would Kerry-Heinz attend ... he don’t know nothing about anything!
They say “peace, peace” when there is no peace.
the word is upstaged
Kerry has been upstaged by the French
John F'in Kerry uses the PLO as his spokespeople, nice.....
Seeing how this charade is taking place on May 30th in France, anybody wanna take bets if he takes any time off from the charade to pay his respects at The Lorraine or Normandy Cemeteries on Memorial Day?
Another MidEast Peace Conference that will achieve nothing. How many is that now since Imenhotep? 5,000 years of mideast peace efforts. You’d think someone would learn to STAY THE F*** OUT OF THERE!
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Kerry will follow orders. At least you don't have to bow to palestinians.
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