(AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting Thursday with the US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has been cancelled, and talks moved to next week between Mitchell and the Israeli defence minister, an Israeli official said.
"The scheduled meeting has been cancelled. In its place there will be another meeting on Monday in Washington between Defence Minister Ehud Barack and the US special envoy," an Israeli official told AFP on Tuesday.
"This delay will enable us to throw light on topical questions which are now hanging in the air and have not been resolved," he said, without elaborating.
Netanyahu had been scheduled to meet with Mitchell in Paris after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
