Israel denies reaching agreement to resume negotiations with Syria

The spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Merav Parsi-Tsadok, denied on Friday that Syria and Israel had initially agreed to resume their negotiations within the coming two weeks.

Parsi-Tsadok added that Israel did not receive any signal from Syria connected to the resumption of talks.

Meanwhile, the Israeli daily Maariv said in its Friday issue that negotiations between Syria and Israel will be resumed under US mediation and that Washington is making contacts to set the date and the venue for resuming the negotiations, its schedule and the rank of the participants in it.