Abbas asks Haniyeh to form unity government
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Thursday to form a new unity government and urged him to respect peace accords signed with Israel.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on  Tuesday for his people to pursue negotiations instead of  violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of  strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat's death.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians should declare an independent state unilaterally if peace talks with Israel continue to falter, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday.
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, called for renewed talks on Saturday between the factions, Haniyeh's office said.
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Middle East News, GAZA, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has called for his people to pursue negotiations instead of violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Jordan that talks on a unity government with Hamas have hit a "dead end" and he will pursue other options, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that his moderate Fatah party and the ruling Hamas party have agreed to form a coalition government &#151; a move the Palestinians hope will ease crippling international sanctions. Later, Palestinian TV reported that Abbas would dissolve the Hamas-led Cabinet within 48 hours.
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Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya resigns as part of a new deal to set up a national unity government.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held crisis talks with Hamas in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in an effort to forge a unity government and end internecine violence that has killed scores since December.
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A Palestinian unity government will be announced in the next few days and will seek a vote of confidence from parliament next Saturday, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and   Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Monday reached a deal   to form a unity government that the Palestinians hope will end   their international isolation and revive aid.
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Palestinian efforts to forge a national   unity government are back at "point zero," Palestinian   President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday.
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Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters on Friday demanded that Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh head any Palestinian unity government despite a deal for him to step aside as a way of restoring Western aid.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian Authority presidency, said Sunday that Palestinians wanted to begin negotiating final statehood terms with Israel as soon as possible and hoped to reach an accord by the end of next
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on   Tuesday poured cold water on any hopes a new Palestinian unity   government might seek peace talks with Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who agreed earlier this month to form a unity government with Islamist group Hamas, said on Monday he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert within two weeks.