Olmert and Abbas agree on teams to tackle statehood
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Monday to create teams to tackle Palestinian statehood issues.
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JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed yesterday to set up negotiating teams on the core issues standing in the way of Palestinian statehood, bringing the two sides a step closer to full-fledged peace talks.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and   Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Monday reached a deal   to form a unity government that the Palestinians hope will end   their international isolation and revive aid.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 â Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, agreed today to set up a team of negotiators to flesh out their understandings of what a permanent, two-state solution would like look and require.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will seek Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's undertaking to begin drafting a proposed agreement on statehood principles during talks on Monday, Abbas aides said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday for talks that seemed likely only to highlight their divisions over a Palestinian unity government whose formation appears imminent.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government on Thursday, hoping to end open warfare between their followers and international sanctions on the Hamas-led administration.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday to see if they could narrow differences over Palestinian statehood ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference in November.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government on Thursday, hoping to end open warfare between their followers, but it was not clear if it was enough to end an international embargo.
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President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian faction leaders agreed Sunday to 10 days of intensive talks aimed at resolving critical differences and avoiding a national referendum on recognizing Israel&#039;s right to exist.
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The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations meant to lift crippling international aid sanctions.
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Israel wants to reopen a serious dialogue with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and work with him to establish a Palestinian state, Israel's foreign minister said Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to salvage peace talks bogged down by a row over Jewish settlements, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Tuesday, on the eve of a visit by President George W. Bush, to get peace talks moving despite major differences over Jewish settlement construction near Jerusalem.
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Israel and the Palestinians lifted a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, will meet in Egypt on Monday for talks with two neighboring Arab leaders alarmed by Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Key players in the search for Middle East peace have reached understanding on a plan that could lead to a comprehensive settlement.