a.. The new United Nations secretary-general said solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was key to wider peace in the Middle East. “If the issues with the conflicts between Israel and Palestine go well, other issues in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Syria, are likely to follow suit,” Ban Ki-Moon said in an interview with South Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper published after he took office Sunday.
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