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US sees "frank discussions" with new Israeli government
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LONDON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama remains committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and looks forward to working with Israel's new government while expecting "frank discussions," the White House said Wednesday.
The Obama administration made its position clear after Israel's new ultranationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning government would not be bound by U.S.-backed understandings on a Palestinian state reached in 2007.
"The president has said many times that we are committed to the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security," said Mike Hammer, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
"We are committed to working vigorously for this two-state solution," he said. "We look forward to working with the new Israeli government and understand that we will have frank discussions, and that these discussions will be based on an underlying shared commitment to Israel and its security."
(Editing by Charles Dick)
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