Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged...

"I am convinced that the resetting of the peace process requires energetic efforts of the quartet of international mediators, interested regional parties, and the entire international community," Medvedev said in a message to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Russian president"s letter was handed over to the Egyptian leader by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who is on a visit to Cairo.

Under the internationally agreed roadmap for Middle East peace, Israel is obliged to freeze construction and remove unauthorized outposts built since 2001 from the Palestinian territories.

The issue of settlement construction in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, has been the main obstacle to reviving peace talks with the Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in late November that construction would be limited in the West Bank, but not in East Jerusalem, which is also under Israeli occupation and which

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