Increasing output from countries outside OPEC means demand for the organization’s crude will slide to 29.7 million barrels a day.

Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin said that Israel wants to negotiate, but that "we can't sign" if the terms remain.

Egypt's interim government has promised its own transition plan, leading to new elections in nine months time.

“As I have already said, we have accomplished our part of the work,” Lavrov told journalists after meeting Ban Ki-moon.

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“The U.S. is not a real mediator, it stands by the Zionists,” said Khamenei. “Definitely .... it is against the interests of the Palestinians.”

“We immediately contacted the Lebanese authorities at every level,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Levent Gumrukcu said.