Direct talks may, of course, provide Netanyahu with cover to renew the moratorium on settlement activity when it expires late September.

当然，直接对话也许能让内塔尼亚胡有个台阶好延长9月末将届满的中止定居点活动的期限。

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Now the likelihood is of an opening ceremony in early September. That would still allow direct talks to get going before Mr Netanyahu’s ten-month freeze on settlement building ends on September 26th.

现在这场谈判很有可能在9月初开始，赶在纳坦雅胡先生为期10个月的定居点扩建禁令到期（9月26日）之前进行。

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China holds that negotiations is always the most direct, effective, and universally used means for peaceful settlement of international disputes.

中国认为，谈判始终是国际法认可的和平解决国际争端最直接、最有效和最普遍的方式。

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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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MPs, who voted by a majority of more than 300 to approve the bill, were told by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson that the Good Friday Agreement was the nearest thing to a "perfect settlement", but that reimposing direct rule from London might be the only way to save it.

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