Abbas Makes One Last Call for EU Support
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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The European Union moved Monday to bolster the Palestinian emergency government, offering political and financial support and urging Israel to follow suit.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas won European and Arab backing on Monday for taking  control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt, intensifying his  power struggle with the Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave.
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European Union leaders on Friday expressed solidarity with the Palestinians and pledged to re-launch Mideast peace efforts, as Yasser Arafat clings to life in a Paris hospital.
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President Bush is expected to call on Europe to assume a key role in helping the new Palestinian leadership build and support institutions and prepare for negotiations
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JERUSALEM -- Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader campaigning to succeed Yasser Arafat in elections next month, said in an interview published yesterday that the 4-year-old armed uprising against Israel was a mistake and must end.
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MAHMOUD Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, has called for an end to armed attacks against Israeli targets in an attempt to mark out a new strategy for peace in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was leaving on a tour of European capitals in a bid to convince key allies to give a unity government a chance and ease a crippling aid freeze.
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UK and Israeli leaders reiterated their support for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in his dispute with Hamas.
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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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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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Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up his campaign for president of the Palestinian Authority today with a call for negotiations for Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas vowed yesterday never to give up the late Yasser Arafat's bedrock demand that Israel recognize a &quot;right of return&quot; of Palestinian refugees.
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The European Union wants to resume direct aid to the Palestinians to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet but is still looking at when it can release funds, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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The US and Israel pledge to  support the new Palestinian government, as the EU says it wants to resume direct aid.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ended his European tour Saturday without persuading any country to end crippling economic sanctions based on his power-sharing deal with the rival Islamic militant Hamas.Comment
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President Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped talks between Palestinian factions to begin Sunday would resolve critical disagreements and make his plan to call a referendum recognizing Israel&#039;s right to exist unnecessary.