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Peace process

June 22, 2010

World leaders have taken a number of wrong turns on the road map to Middle East peace in recent months. Here, Deutsche Welle reviews the successes, failures, twists and turns in negotiations of the past year.

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World leaders have taken a number of wrong turns on the road map to Middle East peace in recent months. Here, Deutsche Welle reviews the successes, failures, twists and turns in negotiations which have taken place over the past year.

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