Abbas promises general referendum
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Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has started his presidential campaign by promising a general referendum on peace.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday announced changes in Palestinian election law aimed at bolstering his Fatah party against the rival Hamas group.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said he will support an expected decision by a top PLO decision-making body to call early elections.
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PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) on Sunday renewed his pledge to honor Yasser Arafat&#39;s legacy by working to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital alongside Israel.
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Israel expects Mahmoud Abbas to win Sunday's Palestinian presidential election and is ready to open talks with him, offering to free Palestinian prisoners if Abbas cracks down on Palestinian rocket attacks, senior Israeli officials said.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate in next week's presidential election, on Monday promised Palestinian refugees they'll be able to return home one day &#151; his most explicit comment yet on an explosive issue that has derailed peace talks in the past.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday he would push on with plans for early elections despite bitter opposition from the Hamas government.
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Mahmoud Abbas will be sworn in as Palestinian president at a ceremony in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians pledged  support to front-running presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas  on Friday as he made his first visit to Gaza since the start of  a campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas Islamists on Monday to agree to early elections and to open a "new page" by ceding control of the Gaza Strip and holding reconciliation talks with his Fatah faction.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he will order early parliamentary and presidential elections in response to what he called the "coup" by Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud   Abbas assured world governments on Thursday any national unity   government he negotiated with Hamas would recognize Israel's   right to exist and renounce violence.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he is ready to honor the security commitments in an internationally backed peace plan, adding that he hopes to resume negotiations with Israel soon.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, frontrunner to succeed Yasser Arafat, said Wednesday that he expected negotiations on Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip after Palestinian elections next month.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas won election  as Palestinian president with more than 60 percent of the vote,  officials said Monday, strengthening his hand to end years of  bloodshed and resume peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Monday to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government threatened to unravel in the Gaza Strip.
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Analysis: Desperate to stay in the game, Mahmoud Abbas challenges Hamas to back a two-state solution or face a referendum on the issue