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 abide by peace accords signed with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency government on Sunday in a move that could bolster him in his power struggle with Islamist rivals by unlocking foreign aid in the West Bank.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas   reached a deal with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on   Monday to form a unity government the Palestinians hope will   end their international isolation and revive aid.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and other rival Palestinians called for unity on Saturday in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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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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A Palestinian unity government is "99 percent" agreed, but will not be announced until next week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday after talks with his political rival, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas, called for power-sharing talks on Saturday with Fatah rivals routed from the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas urged  militant groups on Tuesday to help with an orderly succession  to Yasser Arafat, as Israel talked of possible coordination  with Palestinians on its Gaza pullout plan.
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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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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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Former Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas has urged all Palestinian forces to unite, while pledging allegiance to ailing leader Yasser Arafat who is undergoing emergency tests in Paris.
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Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas voiced   conflicting views on Wednesday on unity government policies   central to the resumption of international aid to the   Palestinian Authority.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday his moderate Fatah party and the ruling Hamas party have agreed to form coalition government. The two sides have been negotiating for months to form such a coalition, which apparently would ease the current Hamas-led government's militantly anti-Israel stance.
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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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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas are to sound out militant groups on extending a ceasefire with Israel from Gaza to the West Bank, officials said on Wednesday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals prepared on Tuesday for talks on a unity government, with less than two weeks to go until a new bid to revive stalled peace negotiations with Israel.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas resigned on Thursday in a procedural move aimed at launching a unity government with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, an official in Haniyeh's office told Reuters.