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Palestinian leader calls for peace conference by mid-2018

By EDITH M. LEDERER nent settlement coloniza-
Associated Press tion," Abbas said. "How can
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — this happen? Israel shut the
Palestinian President Mah- door on the two-state solu-
moud Abbas ruled out the tion on the basis of the 1967
United States as a broker borders."
for peace with Israel on Abbas said the principle of
Tuesday, calling for an in- two-states living side-by-
ternational peace confer- side with full sovereignty
ence by mid-2018 with the must be preserved, but he
key goals of full U.N. mem- said the U.S. has not clari-
bership for the state of Pal- fied whether it is for a two-
estine and a timeframe for state or a one-state solu-
a two-state solution. tion.
Abbas spoke as the Trump And he called President
administration's two key Donald Trump's recogni-
Mideast negotiators who tion of Jerusalem as Israel's
are working on a U.S. capital a "dangerous" ac-
peace proposal — the tion, which ignores that
president's son-in-law Jared "East Jerusalem is part of
Kushner and special repre- the Palestinian territory oc-
sentative Jason Greenblatt cupied since 1967" and
— sat in the Security Coun- must be the capital of a
cil chamber listening. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation Palestinian state
Abbas outlined the Pal- in Palestine, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 at United Nations headquarters. Abbas was the last to arrive
estinian vision for peace, (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) in the Security Council, and
insisting "we are ready to he left immediately after his
begin negotiations imme- conflict." tional governments, noting "Israel is acting as a State speech to attend a recep-
diately," but stressing that it He said the peace confer- that 74 countries attended above the law. It has trans- tion hosted by the Palestin-
has become "impossible for ence should include the Is- a Mideast peace confer- formed the occupation ians, avoiding any direct
one country alone to solve raelis and Palestinians and ence in Paris in January from a temporary situation contact with the Ameri-
a regional or international key regional and interna- 2017. ... into a situation of perma- cans or Israelis.q

Vatican investigator meets with Chilean sex abuse victims

By PATRICIA LUNA nando Karadima, who was people who reached out, sively about Barros, but also covering up the abuses. He
Associated Press removed from ministry and as well as those that he de- about the alleged role that will also talk to three priests
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — sentenced to a lifetime of manded to interview. several other bishops as who worked for Barros.
The Vatican's sex abuse "penance and prayer" in He also said that he will ex- well as Chilean Cardinals Barros has been a bishop
investigator on Tuesday 2010. clusively be gathering infor- Francisco Javier Errazuriz since 1995, but his 2015 ap-
began a series of meetings The Chilean conference of mation on Barros. and Ricardo Ezzati played pointment to Osorno by
in Chile with abuse victims bishops said that Maltese On Saturday, Scicluna met in the cover-up. Pope Francis caused out-
and others who have op- Archbishop Charles Sciclu- in New York with Juan Car- The cardinals have all pub- rage after the Karadima
posed the appointment of na will also talk to a dele- los Cruz, a key victim in the licly denied any wrongdo- scandal eroded the Cath-
a bishop accused of cover- gation of lay Catholics and Chilean sex abuse scandal. ing, and Barros has also de- olic Church's credibility in
ing up for the country's most priests from the Chilean Cruz said that Scicluna told nied seeing or knowing of Chile. He has faced protests
notorious pedophile priest. diocese of Osorno during him that he would gather any abuse. in Osorno by priests and lay
Pope Francis has strongly four days of meetings. all the evidence and tes- Scicluna was to meet with Catholics who question
backed Bishop Juan Barros, The conference did not timony from victims in the James Hamilton and Jose how someone who says he
who is accused by victims provide the names of the Barros case and speak di- Andres Murillo, who along never saw anything suspi-
of witnessing and ignoring victims to protect their pri- rectly to Francis about it. with Cruz have denounced cious at the parish could
the abuse of young pa- vacy, but it said Scicluna He also said that the con- Karadima and the role that be trusted to protect Os-
rishioners by the Rev. Fer- will be meeting both with versation was not exclu- Barros allegedly played in orno's children today.q