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 <p>Israel's Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has invited Lebanese President Michel Aoun to direct talks in Europe on their countries' disputed maritime border, a rare outreach between nations still technically at war.</p><p>Israel and Lebanon opened <a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/11/19/Lebanon-specifies-its-starting-point-for-maritime-border-talks-with-Israel"><strong>negotiations on the border dispute</strong></a> under US and UN auspices last month to clear the way for offshore oil and gas exploration.</p><p>Last week, Steinitz on Twitter accused Lebanon of undermining the talks by continuously shifting its position and trying to widen the disputed area under negotiation. That sparked a Twitter response from Aoun, who rejected Steinitz's charges that Lebanon had been inconsistent.</p> 

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