French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was meeting Palestinian officials in the West Bank on Saturday, the first day of a two-day trip aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process ahead of a year-end deadline for a deal.
Kouchner began by joining Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad on a visit to the northern West Bank town of Jenin, once a hotbed of militant violence and still plagued by crime, to survey progress on establishing security there.
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