Direct Mideast Peace Talks Scheduled for September

Dana Ritter

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced direct talks are planned for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on September 2nd.

The direct talks will be held at the State Department.  Clinton expects the talks can be completed in a year's time.

President Obama has also invited Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan, to the talks.  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has played a large role in peace talks, will participate as well.

Special Envoy to the Middle East, Former Senator George Mitchell said the talks will be approached with "patience, perserverance and determinatin."

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Dana
Ritter

Dana Brown Ritter is the Washington, DC Bureau Chief for CBN News. She leads the DC team in coverage of the White House, Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court and other big stories in Washington, as they come up. Prior to returning to CBN News as DC Bureau Chief, Dana was the News Director at WBTW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Myrtle Beach, SC. She's been an Executive Producer at WAVY-TV in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area, WTAE in Pittsburgh, and a producer at the DC Bureau for Hearst Television. Dana previously worked at CBN News as White House Producer and was the Executive Producer of "The Brody File