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Talks 'detrimental' to Palestinians: Iran's Khamenei
by Staff Writers
Tehran (AFP) Aug 09, 2013


German minister to visit Mideast to boost peace talks
Berlin, Germany (AFP) Aug 09, 2013 - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories in a bid to lend backing to revived peace talks, a ministry spokesman said Friday.

Westerwelle will meet President Shimon Peres and the chief Israeli negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, in Jerusalem on Sunday, followed by talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

He will then sit down with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Rami Hamdallah before returning to Berlin.

"Foreign minister Westerwelle will express Germany's strong support for the resumption of talks under US mediation," the spokesman said in a statement.

"Germany and Europe will do all they can to lend backing to the new peace talks so they may be successful."

After three years of stalemate, talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators on ending their long-standing conflict began again last month in Washington under US mediation, and both sides agreed to try to resolve their differences within nine months.

The next round is to take place on August 14 in Jerusalem attended by US mediator Martin Indyk and is to be followed by a meeting in the West Bank city of Jericho.

A foreign ministry spokesman had told reporters Wednesday that Westerwelle would only travel to the region if he felt he could make a "positive contribution to the peace process", calling the effort "very difficult".

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday warned the Palestinians against renewed peace talks with Israel, saying they would be "detrimental" to their cause.

The US-mediated talks will force "the Palestinians to relinquish their rights," Khamenei told worshippers in Tehran University after Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

His remarks came a day after the US State Department said Palestinian and Israeli negotiators would resume talks on ending their long-standing conflict on August 14 in Jerusalem.

Both sides have already agreed to try to resolve their differences within nine months.

The talks, restarted last month in Washington mediation, will also "encourage the aggressors to increase their aggression and suppress the rightful resistance of the Palestinians," said Khamenei, who has the final say on Iran's foreign policy.

Dismissing the talks as "the doing of the arrogance" -- an allusion to Iran's arch-foe the United States -- he said the result would "definitely be detrimental" to the Palestinians.

Iran, a major regional supporter of the Islamist Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip, does not see eye to eye with the Palestinian Authority.

The Islamic republic has repeatedly voiced opposition about talks focusing on a two-state solution, saying the Jewish state would never agree to withdraw from "occupied lands".

Khamenei on Friday also called on the Muslim world to condemn Israel's "oppressive" actions against Palestinians.

"The Muslim world must not back down from its support for Palestine, and it should condemn the oppressive action of fierce Zionist wolves and their international supporters," he said.

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