Itongadol.- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume peace talks in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, the US State Department said on Thursday.
"Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians will be resuming Aug. 14 in Jerusalem and will be followed by a meeting in Jericho (in the West Bank)," State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told a briefing.
The sides held their first peace negotiations in nearly three years in Washington on July 30 in US-mediated efforts to end the conflict of more than six decades.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that peace talks with Israel will start "very soon," and reiterated past statements that east Jerusalem would be the capital of the future Palestinian state, Palestinian news agency Ma\’an reported.
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