French President Nicolas Sarkozy has also tried to re-ignite the peace process, holding discussions in recent days with Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"Strong support is needed for them to rebuild their lives,". "The Mauritanian national refugee organization and its partners are assisting in the reintegration process with a variety of programs allocating farm land, providing Arabic and French language courses, doing medical screening of the returnees,etc."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24