without much hope for the resumption of peace negotiations in the near future. (Haaretz) UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry briefed the Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit on Wednesday on the Quartet's efforts to bring the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotia

er, according to a time-line that had envisioned reaching a settlement by year's end. Thus UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry expressed the Secretary General's hope that the Quartet partners, in consultation with the parties, would chart a "new, credible political way ahea