Abbas visits Jenin to continue election campaign
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As part of his election campaign,Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas visited onThursday the northern West Bank town of Jenin and met with localleaders, Palestinian official sources said.
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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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JERUSALEM, Dec. 9--Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is inclined to call early elections, including for his own office, to end the political and economic crisis in the territories, Palestinian officials said Saturday.
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JERUSALEM Palestinian leaders have outlined plans to persuade visiting American envoys to help ensure smooth elections to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas has pledged to honour Yasser Arafat&#39;s wishes and fight for the &quot;right of return&quot; of Palestinian refugees to Israel.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is inclined to call early elections, including for his own office, to end the political and economic crisis in the territories, Palestinian officials said Saturday.
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Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely
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Tony Blair met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he continued a trip aimed at breathing new life into the dormant Middle East peace process and bolstering a UN-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon.
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Leading candidate Mahmoud Abbas received a loud and warm welcome in the isolated West Bank town of Jericho in a campaign visit ahead of a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat, telling his backers that he will follow Arafat's policies.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he considers Israeli leader Ariel Sharon a partner for peace talks and called for an immediate resumption of negotiations after the Palestinian election.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank -- Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely invoked the late leader&#39;s legacy and vowed to continue his
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian presidency, campaigned today in the Jenin refugee camp, where he was lifted onto the shoulders of gunmen and
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Just two days after branding  Israel the "Zionist enemy," Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas  pledged on Thursday to pursue peace talks following the Jan. 9  presidential election he is widely expected to win.
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Interim Palestinian leader and presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally in the West Bank town of Jericho, Tuesday Dec. 28, 2004.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Seven candidates running for Palestinian president, led by front-runner Mahmoud Abbas, kicked off a 15-day electoral campaign yesterday, with most seeking to capitalize in some fashion on the memory of Yasser Arafat.
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Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made a campaign run Wednesday through West Bank towns living in the shadow of Israel's separation barrier, urging Israel to tear down the huge structure that he said would never help peace.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to call early elections, seeing little point in further talks on a government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West, aides said on Saturday.