People gather outside Syrian Embassy in Brussels yesterday to protest against Assad regime forces’ and its supporters’ attacks on civilians and the humanitarian plight in Aleppo.
Paris: FRANCE has postponed a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, its ambassador to the United Nations said, acknowledging that the conditions to bring Israelis and Palestinians face-to-face were currently not there.
France has repeatedly tried to breathe new life into the peace process this year, holding a preliminary conference in June where the UN, EU, US and major Arab countries gathered to discuss proposals without the Israelis or Palestinians present.
The plan was to hold a follow-up conference before end of the year with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas involved to see whether the two sides could be brought back to negotiations and revive moribund peace talks.
Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected conference proposal and with attendance from the US in doubt holding such a meeting appeared complicated.
“After nearly a year of efforts, France will hold during January an international conference,” Ambassador Francois Delattre said yesterday.
