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USA has stated that documents revealed by a television channel on Sunday (January 23) could undermine peace talks and the position of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose public declarations about Jerusalem are at odds with what his officials were promising in private.The leaked documents revealed a meeting between Palestinian, U.S. and Israeli officials showed a senior Palestinian proposing that Israel annex all but one of its major Jerusalem settlements as part of a broad deal to end their decades-old conflict, while the Palestinian leader of negotiation team said that Palestine issue is resolved in Camp David proposal. The Middle East peace talks are at a standstill due to a dispute over Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, with the Palestinians refusing to return to the negotiating table until Israel halts the building programmes.
