Spindelegger: "Political progress more urgently needed than ever before"

People ♦ Published: September 27, 2012; 18:17 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria´s Minister of Foreign Affairs meets President of the Palestinian National Authority Abbas and the Foreign Ministers of Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates in New York.

Spindelegger: "Political progress more urgently needed than ever before" / Picture: © UN United Nations

On the sidelines of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger met the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas and made a statement on the Arab-Israeli conflict afterwards.

"The almost complete standstill in the negotiating process and hence the lack of any progress whatsoever in…