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US Envoy Urges Fresh Approach to Middle East Peace

Margaret Besheer

   NEW YORK - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft touted
   recent U.S.-brokered breakthroughs in normalizing relations between
   Israel and three Arab countries on Monday, and urged her U.N. Security
   Council colleagues to shed their "decades-old approaches" to Middle
   East peace and reconsider President Donald Trump's proposal.'¯

   "The conversation in the region is changing," said Craft. "As the
   president said, a new chapter is beginning."'¯ '¯

   She pointed to the Sept.15 signing at the White House of the Abraham
   Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and two Arab Gulf
   countries -- the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. They were the first
   such agreements between Israel and an Arab state in 25 years. '¯

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