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Russia ready to Continue Efforts for Mideast Settlement

Russia on Sunday expressed readiness to keep working for a comprehensive and just settlement in the Middle East, an arrangement under which Palestine would be an independent state, Interfax reported.

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Russia on Sunday expressed readiness to keep working for a comprehensive and just settlement in the Middle East, an arrangement under which Palestine would be an independent state, Interfax reported.

"Russia is ready to continue active efforts for a comprehensive and just settlement in the Middle East, a settlement within whose framework two independent states -- Israel and Palestine -- will live side by side in peace and security," Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in a statement published on the ministry's website Sunday.

Ivanov noted that under the settlement, all the countries and peoples of the region will acquire an opportunity for development in an environment of reliable stability and good-neighborliness.

"We intend to act in close coordination with our Quartet partners and other interested parties to attain this goal," reads the statement, which was released after a Quartet ministerial meeting held in Jordan among the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Ivanov, along with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, stressed that the acceptance of the "road map" settlement plan opened the way to peace and that the international community should give active assistance to the process.

The Foreign Ministry revealed that the two officials also advocated "a weighty independent role for the United Nations in the post-conflict reorganization of Iraq" and insisted on the enforcement of Resolution 1483 of the UN Security Council, according to Interfax.

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