ITAR-TASS: “MOSCOW, March 19 (Itar-Tass) — A meeting of the “quartet” for the Middle East settlement (Russia, the United States, U.N. and EU) on the level of ministers opened here on Friday. Participants in the meeting will discuss ways of settling the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and resuming the negotiating process between the conflicting parties.
“The ‘quartet’ is meeting to discuss the difficult situation that took shape in the Middle East settlement, as well a the ideas that the ‘quartet’ might suggest to the parties for creating conditions, needed for the resumption of the talks,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.”