国际英语新闻：Israeli FM: no peace deal within one year

Palestinian officials, as well, expressed doubts over the success of the meeting, and warned of points of contention.

"It's impossible to conduct negotiations alongside settlement construction," Abbas wrote in a letter sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Catherine Ashton, high representative of the European Union on foreign policy.

Netanyahu said on Friday in a statement from his office, that " We are coming to the talks with a genuine desire to reach a peace agreement between the two peoples that will protect Israel's national security interests, foremost of which is security."

"It can be done in less than a year," chief PNA negotiator Saeb Erekat said last week of achieving a possible deal, but added, " the most important thing now is to see to it that the Israeli government refrains from settlement activities, incursions, fait accomplis policies," according to Erekat.