The new Palestinian Authority prime minister met with a visiting senior U.S. official. William Burns, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, said after Monday’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas that both Israel and the Palestinians must take steps to advance a new plan for peace.
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