Leaders of the top seven industrialized nations and Russia called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to redouble efforts to reach a final peace settlement. In a statement issued after the end of a two-day summit in Cologne, Germany, the Group of Eight urged the two sides “to implement fully and promptly the Wye River Memorandum, to combat terror, to fight violence and incitement to violence and to refrain from all activities that prejudge the outcome of the Permanent Status negotiations.”
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