Italy’s foreign minister flew to the Middle East for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at stemming the violence. Italy said Renato Ruggiero’s trip, which follows a similar visit by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, “forms part of Europe’s strategy of maintaining, via direct contact with the parties, a constant effort to get the peace talks going again.”
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