Last week's meeting of the so-called Middle East Quartet ended without a final statement.
Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair expressed concern about the "the deteriorating health condition of the four prisoners".
He then travelled from Berlin to attend the Munich Security Conference and a meeting of the Middle East Quartet.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Trieste, Italy, on the morning of Friday, 26 June, to attend a meeting of the Middle East Quartet.
For the past month, under the aegis of the Middle East Quartet, Netanyahu's representative attorney Yitzhak Molcho has been conducting negotiations with Abbas's representatives in Amman, Jordan.
And the Middle East quartet -- comprised of the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union -- conferred on a conference call about the situation.
The road map peace plan, adopted by the Bush administration together with the other members of the Middle East Quartet (the EU, Russia and the UN) in 2003, is similarly explicit.
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Obama's newest threat is that through the so-called Middle East Quartet, (Russia, the UN, the EU and the US), the administration will move towards supporting the Palestinian plan to declare Palestinian statehood.
The first time Israel explicitly and formally accepted the establishment of a Palestinian state, however, came only in 2004, with the Sharon government's qualified acceptance of the Middle East Quartet's so-called road map plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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After Fatah and Hamas signed their first unity deal in March 2007, the US and its colleagues in the so-called Middle East Quartet - Russia, the EU and the UN - set three conditions that Hamas needed to meet to be accepted by them as legitimate.
So while then-prime minister Ehud Barak for instance claimed that his offer to cede the Temple Mount was contingent on the signing of a peace treaty, when the so-called Middle East Quartet issued its road map plan for peace, Barak's ostensibly canceled offer was the starting point of negotiations.
Former British prime minister and current Quartet Middle East mediator Tony Blair has been making daily statements warning of a breach with Israel if the Netanyahu government doesn't fall in line.
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Russia is a member of the quartet of Middle East mediators, along with the United States, United Nations, and European Union.
Mr Blair is not being paid for his work as a Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia.
Repeated calls by the Quartet of Middle East negotiators (from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the UN) for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks have been ignored.
Representatives from the European Union, the UN, the US and Russia - the Quartet of Middle East mediators - are reported to be working on a framework for a return to talks that would forestall Mr Abbas' statehood bid.
The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators - the US, Russia, the EU and the UN - has also condemned the Israeli housing announcement and said it would review the situation at its ministerial meeting scheduled for 19 March in Moscow.
The European Commissioner for External Relations, Benito Ferrero-Waldner, says the European Union wants to revise the group of would-be Middle East peacemakers, the so-called quartet.
It's often forgotten that many of the exotic rhythms he infused into his music came from tours his quartet took of the Middle and Far East.
Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today that diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process had continued, and recent meetings -- including of the Quartet on Friday -- were part of a concentrated push to create the conditions for re-launching efforts for a two-State solution.
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