Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik met late Tuesday night with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York City and the two discussed the efforts being made to release the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah and Hamas.
Ban told reporters before the meeting that the issue of the MIA Israeli soldiers topped his daily agenda and that he is working hard to resolve the matter.
Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Gillerman, and chief political counsel to the Israeli UN delegation, Gilad Cohen, also attended the half-hour meeting.
Ban said he was concerned that the matter had yet to be resolved and reminded the assembled reportersof Israel's goodwill gesture towards the Palestinian government in the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners.
On Monday Itzik met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington, the fourth meeting for the two in the past year.