Palestinians in plea to UK over peace process
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The Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, today called on Britain to fill the gap in the Middle East peace process left as the US focuses on next month&#39;s presidential election.
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Prominent Palestinian figures appealed on Sunday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei Sunday urged the European Union (EU) to take a firm position toward the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will demand Israel commit to a freeze on all settlement construction at a peace summit Thursday
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his quest to bring peace to the Middle East, unveiling plans for a conference to prepare the Palestinians for statehood, during a landmark West Bank visit.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday said the world should restore contacts with the Palestinians if the ruling Hamas group agrees to form a unity government that renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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RAMALLAH: Prominent Palestinian figures appealed yesterday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Secretary of state to convince Palestinian leaders about US-backed Middle East peace conference.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian Authority presidency, said yesterday that Palestinians wanted to begin negotiating final statehood terms
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged  militant groups in Gaza on Saturday to agree to a mutual  cease-fire with Israel but they said they would only consider  one if the Jewish state promised to stop its assaults first.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel&#39;s unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged Palestinians and Israelis to work with the international community to make Yasser Arafatâs dream of two states living in peace a reality.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday a planned London conference on Palestinian reform would be a critical step toward Middle East peace talks and a Palestinian state.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei met on Thursday with visiting British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and discussed with him the Middle East peace process.
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Britain should play a more active role to help revive the Middle East peace process to make up for the disengagement of the United States which is currently distracted by its upcoming presidential election, visiting Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath said here.
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Palestinian negotiators have called on the Middle East Quartet to give the grouping&#39;s new envoy, Tony Blair, a wider role that included the responsibility for policing Israeli obligations, The Guardian reported on Thursday.