中東和談週一在華盛頓重新啓動

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are set to meet Monday in Washington for preliminary talks on resuming peace negotiations that have remained stalled for nearly three years.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will host chief negotiators Tzipi Livni for Israel and Saeb Erekat for the Palestinians a dinner Monday night to begin the discussions. The two sides will come together for more talks on Tuesday.

Kerry says he is grateful that Palestinian and Israeli leaders have shown they are willing to make the "difficult decisions" needed to get to this point.

Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overcame strong opposition in his Cabinet to approve a Palestinian prisoner release.

One-hundred four Palestinian prisoners will be freed in four stages. But Livni said it will be carried out only if the Palestinians prove to be a serious partner in the negotiations.以色列和巴勒斯坦的談判代表星期一在華盛頓舉行初步會談，討論恢復處於停滯狀態將近3年的和談事宜。

星期一晚上，美國國務卿克里將設宴招待以色列首席談判代表利夫尼和巴勒斯坦首席談判代表埃雷卡特，並開始進行討論。雙方星期二將繼續舉行會談。

克里說，以色列和巴勒斯坦領導人顯示願意做出走到這一步所需要的艱難決定，他對此表示感謝。

以色列總理內塔尼亞胡星期天克服來自其內閣的強大阻力，通過了釋放巴勒斯坦囚犯的決定。

104名巴勒斯坦囚犯將分4個階段釋放。但利夫尼表示，巴勒斯坦人必須證明自己是認真參與談判，以色列纔會執行有關釋放巴勒斯坦囚犯的決定。