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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with participants at Middle East quartet meeting in New York - 24 Sep. '09
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The Quartet urges the Government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, and to refrain from provocative actions in East Jerusalem, and calls on the Palestinian Authority to continue to make every effort to improve law and order, to fight violent extremism, and to end incitement.
Communiqué issued by Middle East Quartet in New York, 24 September 2009
