And we continue to encourage both sides to come back together in direct negotiations.
The direct negotiations that will start tomorrow must show results -- and sooner rather than later.
"Only direct negotiations to settle final status issues will lead to this outcome, " Ms Rice said.
"Maybe with the coming administration in the United States we can talk about direct negotiations, " he told al-Watan.
"Our direct negotiations with the IAAF representatives, through the mediator, have been ongoing for 10 months, " he said.
So this effort is not just about getting the parties into direct negotiations.
The ground-breaking talks - the first direct negotiations in a decade - are then expected to move to Cuba.
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Mr Prosor said peace could only come through direct negotiations between the two sides, not through a UN resolution.
And they talked about Middle East peace and our efforts to align our position on support for direct negotiations.
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In exchange the Palestinians committed to resolve their conflict with Israel through direct negotiations that would lead to peace.
We're focused on a process here and the reality that the way to achieve peace is through face-to-face, direct negotiations.
To date, Israel has maintained that substantive discussions can only be conducted in direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials.
As I have said many times, the only way to achieve that goal is through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians themselves.
These are demands that no government in its right mind would accept in direct negotiations, let alone as a precondition for them.
When President Clinton invited Arafat to the White House for direct negotiations on the Middle East, Welsh says, that was the last straw.
And finally, we have long said that we believe direct negotiations are the only path through which the parties will ultimately reach an agreement.
Then, in 2006, the administration began direct negotiations with the mullahs.
We support direct negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Two decades of on-off negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have failed to produce a permanent settlement, with the latest round of direct negotiations breaking down in 2010.
As we have said before, unilateral actions work against efforts to resume direct negotiations and they do not advance the goal of a reasonable and necessary agreement between the parties.
"The only way to resolve all pending issues between Israel and the Palestinians, including the settlements issue, is through direct negotiations without preconditions, " said Yigal Palmor, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Tuesday, the moderate Abbas told his Israeli guests that he's ready to hold direct negotiations with Netanyahu as soon as the premier gives him his positions on borders and security.
This is because, as we have said time and time again, the United States strongly opposes efforts to address final status issues at the United Nations rather than in direct negotiations.
Mr Assad said his country was "in the process of building foundations for the peace talks" and would need help from the US and others for direct negotiations to take place.
These will be direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
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It was left to the UN Secretary-General's special envoy to Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, to announce that the two leaders had agreed to resume direct negotiations in Nicosia in mid-January with no preconditions.
And I think it is clear that without those concrete steps and without those direct negotiations toward that transition, you are simply going to see -- continue to see more uncertainty and more unrest.
When Ehud Olmert, Israel's previous prime minister, embarked on direct negotiations with the Palestinians, settlement construction was concentrated within or close to the likely borders of Jewish territory, on the assumption that other land would be evacuated.
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