US hopes Abbas's call for early elections will help quell violence
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The White House expressed hope that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections will help quell violence in the region.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced yesterday that he has decided to call early elections, including for his own office, to end a political crisis in the Palestinian territories that has brought a surge in factional violence over the past week.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair explored options for Middle East peace in Egypt on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for early elections to break a deadlock between rival factions.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says he hopes to meet Palestinian leaders soon as part of a harder US push for peace in the region following the death of President Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war.
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Even while mourning the loss of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leadership ordered preparations for new presidential elections to start immediately and appealed to the United States to take an active role in securing a vote in 60 days.
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaat said earlier today that the US presidential elections, which will be held on November 2, have impaired the Middle East peace process.
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The Bush administration is preparing  with European allies to help the Palestinian Authority organize  January elections and improve its security forces to crack down  on terrorism, U.S. officials and diplomats said on Sunday.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the new chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, last night appealed to Gaza&#39;s rival factions to unite behind the task of arranging orderly elections 24 hours after a shooting which claimed the life of one of his own bodyguards.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is indicating he may call for early elections in the Palestinian territories, Palestinian official Saeb Erakat told CNN.
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President Mahmoud Abbas was meeting Sunday with officials from the Palestinian Central Election Commission, the first step toward holding early elections.
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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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Even while mourning the loss of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leadership ordered preparations for new presidential elections to start immediately and appealed to the United States to take an active role in securing a vote in 60
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Israeli leaders told Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday that they will do their utmost to allow Palestinian elections to take place, including easing travel restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for early elections to end the stalemate between factions in Gaza and the West Bank on Saturday. Violence has flared between supporters of Abbas' Fatah movement and Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in January. Tensions between Palestinians are at their worst point in a decade. On Friday, Hamas accused Fatah of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.