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Obama urges Palestinian leader to take risks for peace with Israel

By REUTERS

MARCH 17, 2014 17:40

President Barack Obama on Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in US-brokered negotiations in coming weeks.

In White House talks overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, Abbas pressed for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go ahead with the scheduled release of a final group of Palestinian prisoners by the end of March.

"We remain convinced there is an opportunity," Obama told reporters as Abbas sat beside him in the Oval Office. Obama met Netanyahu two weeks ago in Washington and is trying to narrow gaps between the two sides on a framework for a peace deal that would extend negotiations beyond an April deadline.

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