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UNITED NATIONS — Arab leaders, including the Saudi king, and Israeli President Shimon Peres were to attend the same dinner Tuesday night, a rare encounter that the head of the United Nations hoped would promote understanding and talks.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was hosting the dinner for leaders attending a two-day U.N. conference to promote a global dialogue about religions, cultures and common values that starts today. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked the General Assembly to hold the conference as a follow-up to an interfaith meeting he organized with King Juan Carlos of Spain in July in Madrid.
Public meetings between Israeli and Saudi officials are extremely rare. The Associated Press
