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US keeps pushing for Mideast talks to continue

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-09-27 06:57

WASHINGTON?- The United States continues to press for Israeli-Palestinian direct peace talks to advance despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to allow a temporary freeze on settlement construction to expire, the US State Department said on Sunday.

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"We keep pushing for the talks to continue," said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley in a brief statement, adding that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had spoken to Netanyahu twice on Sunday.