The Quartet on the Middle East, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of nations and international entities involved in mediating the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian People. The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...

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The Quartet Principals

• The United Nations, represented by Secretary-General Kofi Annan
• The United States, represented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• The Russian Federation, represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
• The European Union, represented by the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana

The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. ... Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... Condoleezza Rice, Ph. ... Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, in Russian Сергей Викторович Лавров, is the minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation. ... The Common Foreign and Security Policy or CFSP was established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union in the Maastricht treaty of 1992, and further defined and broadened in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997. ... Javier Solana Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga (born July 14, 1942 in Madrid, Spain) is the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU). ...

See also

• Road map for peace

The road map for peace is a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proposed by a quartet of international entities: the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations. ...

External links

• US Mission to the UN archive of press releases pertaining to the Middle East
• Joint Statement by the Quartet, upon meeting in London, March 1, 2005
• President Welcomes Quartet Principals to White House, press release from meeting of the Quartet Principals on December 20, 2002