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U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy told Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, Thursday that Washington wants to see the creation of a Palestinian state.
"I reiterated to the foreign minister that U.S. policy favors, with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution which will have a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel," envoy George Mitchell told reporters, with Lieberman at his side.
"We look forward also to efforts to achieving comprehensive peace throughout the region," Mitchell said.
Lieberman has rejected restarting statehood negotiations with the Palestinians that were launched by then-U.S. President George W. Bush at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007.
In his comments to reporters, Lieberman made no mention of a Palestinian state, an issue that could put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning government on a collision course with Obama.
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