FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has praised efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to bring Israel and Palestine back to the negotiating table, insisting there will be no peace without American leadership.
Attempts at brokering a resumption in direct talks after an almost three-year hiatus ended without agreement on Sunday following four days of Mr Kerry shuttling between both camps.
But Washington's most senior diplomat, who arrived in Brunei on Tuesday for a regional forum of foreign ministers, maintains that "with a little more work, the start of final status negotiations could be within reach".
He is understood to have spent 13 hours with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and about six hours with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in a marathon effort to encourage both sides into talks.
Despite the lack of tangible progress, Senator Carr, who sat with Mr Kerry during a dinner attended by ASEAN foreign ministers on Monday night, said the US secretary of state deserved high praise for his efforts.
"I told him he had the admiration of Australians in his valiant attempts to bring the Palestinians and Israelis together," Senator Carr told AAP.
"It can't happen without American leadership," he said.
Senator Carr is understood to have told Mr Kerry that Australia strongly supported a two-state solution with the creation of a Palestinian state as well as security guarantees for Israel, and that "1967 boundaries should be the starting point with agreed land swaps".
President Abbas is pushing Israel to free the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners, to remove roadblocks in the West Bank and to publicly agree to make the lines that existed before the 1967 Middle East war the baseline for negotiations.
Mr Netanyahu is reportedly willing to consider just the first two conditions - but only after talks are under way - and has flatly refused to countenance any return to the 1967 lines.
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