[State Department] State Department spokesman Robert Wood was asked at a press briefing on Tuesday: Q: "Would the U.S. be ready to exert some financial pressures on Israel to convince the government to stop settlements?" Wood: "It's premature to talk about that. What we're trying to do, as I said, right now is to create an environment which makes it conducive for talks to go forward. And as I said, Senator Mitchell is working very hard on this. And what we all need to do in the international community is support this effort, and that means Americans, that means Arabs and Israelis, to do what they can to kind of foster a climate in which the two sides can come together and negotiate their differences peacefully so that we can get to that two-state solution."
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