The United States wants to postpone, if not cancel, a proposed international meeting to discuss Israeli settlements, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs said. Martin Indyk told reporters Wednesday that the meeting of the international signatories to the Fourth Geneva Convention scheduled for July 15 “has been invented for the purposes of trying to put Israel in a corner” and that it sets a negative tone for the incoming government of Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak.
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