Abbas aide calls Kerry peace formula a recipe for failure
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A Palestinian official said on Tuesday a framework agreement being crafted by #US Secretary of State John Kerry to sustain troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks may be doomed to fail. Nabil Abu Rdeineh, spokesman to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, said the deal due to be submitted to the two sides in the coming weeks would be “useless” if it allowed them to nominally accept its principles but to express reservations. “Use of the word ’reservations’ bogs down the #peace_process and the use of this concept in the past has got the process stuck,” Abu Rdeineh told Reuters. read more