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Lieberman, in an interview with the Israel Radio, said Europe's aim was to "distort the international community's correct set of priorities," by focusing on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts instead of the turmoil in the surrounding countries, the Ha'aretz daily reported.
On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her for a meeting of the Quartet.
The meeting would herald the beginning of a new plan founded on U.S. President Barak Obama's speech last month, in which he suggested that borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state be based on the pre-1967 war cease-fire lines.
The Israeli foreign minister stressed that current events in Iran and Syria require more attention than the efforts to revive moribund peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, in an impasse since last September.
Lieberman said that there have been other peace initiatives, besides the EU effort.
"There is a French initiative and a plan for a conference in Moscow," Lieberman said, "but when I speak to my colleagues I tell them, 'you are trying to take the Palestinian story and alter the natural agenda in the Middle East.'"
