(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - The U.S. government has asked senior Palestinian officials to refrain from leaking details of talks that took place recently between Middle East Quartet envoys, Israeli representatives and the PA, a senior U.S. official said. The Palestinians presented the Quartet with two documents relating to the borders of a future Palestinian state and security arrangements with Israel in November, but Quartet representatives told Saeb Erekat, head of the Palestinian negotiating team, that the proposals were not relevant because they had not been presented in direct talks with Israel, the official said. The Obama administration sees the Palestinian strategy of presenting proposals to the Quartet without engaging in direct talks as an attempt to change the rules of the game.
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