Sharon focuses on new partnership with Peres
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Ariel Sharon, Israel&#39;s prime minister, pledged on Thursday to forge a new national unity government with opposition parties after parliament&#39;s overwhelming rejection of his budget shattered the existing coalition.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel was on the verge of a new coalition government after a deal was reached to install opposition leader Shimon Peres as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s official number two.
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Israel's prime minister says he is ready for talks with the Palestinian leader, after talks with UK PM Tony Blair.
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Israeli opposition leader, Shimon Peres, has agreed to adopt the third tier role of deputy prime minister in Ariel Sharon&#39;s new coalition government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said on Tuesday that he would consider coordinating a pullout  from the Gaza Strip with a new Palestinian leadership if it  curbed attacks on Israelis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a governing coalition with Shimon  Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned  Gaza pullout.
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Peres says his Labour partyâs main objective is to work with Sharon to achieve peace with Palestinians. ROME- Israeli Labour party leader Shimon Peres said he would work with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
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ARIEL SHARON, the Israeli Prime Minister, spoke last night of a unique chance for peace and said that he was ready to co-ordinate his Gaza withdrawal plan with the new Palestinian leadership that will succeed Yassir Arafat.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sounded a note of optimism about the prospects for Middle East peace, crediting the new leadership of the Palestinian Authority for the brightened outlook.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet on Tuesday that he hopes to meet newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the "near future" &#151; the latest sign that the two sides are trying to work toward peace after years of stalemate.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reaffirmed his commitment to a Middle East peace initiative, despite comments from one of his senior advisers who effectively dismissed the plan.
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THE Israeli Labor party leader Shimon Peres, who is due to begin negotiations today over forming a coalition with the ruling Likud party, believes that Ariel Sharon will eventually be prepared to withdraw from more West Bank land than the small amount
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's  Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza  pullout.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will seek a governing coalition with Shimon Peres&#39;s Labour Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel reached a deal with Shimon Peres yesterday to name the opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to name opposition leader Shimon Peres as his deputy in a coalition deal.
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Next year could bring a &quot;historic breakthrough&quot; in Israel&#39;s relations with the Palestinians, a buoyant Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said today, insisting