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Thu 11 Nov 2009Clinton seeks to calm Arab anger at settlement policy
US SECRETARY of state Hillary Clinton attempted to assuage Arab anger yesterday by telling Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak that the US does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlements and seeks to halt their construction “forever”.
She stated, “Our policy on settlement has not changed . . . Ending all settlement activity current and future would be preferable” to its continuation. She said that no issues can be excluded from the negotiations, notably Jerusalem, and tried to reassure Mr Mubarak by saying “our goal is a real [Palestinian] state, with real sovereignty.
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