China has welcomed efforts to kick-start the long-stalled negotiations between Israel and Palestinian leaders.
Speaking at a press conference in Beijing on Saturday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said China expects Palestinians and Israel ?to overcome difficulties and strive to reach concrete results at an early date.?
Hua added that the Chinese government has made endeavors to persuade both Palestinians and Israelis to resume peace talks when receiving Palestinian and Israeli leaders during their China tours earlier this year.
She added that China even hosted an international meeting in June aimed at reviving the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
?Chinese President Xi Jinping has made four-point proposal to resolve the Palestinian issue,? Hua stated.
On Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said if everything goes as expected, Israel-Palestine negotiations will resume soon.
?We have reached an agreement that establishes the basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis,? he said, adding, ?This is a significant and welcome step forward.?
?The agreement is still in the process of being formalized,? Kerry noted, but gave no details on what had been agreed so far.
The Palestinian-Israeli talks were halted in September 2010 over disagreements on Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the Gaza Strip and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories occupied in the Six-Day War of 1967.
Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds.
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Republished with permission from: Press TV
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/china-welcomes-israel-palestinian-talks/51931/
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