UN seeks quick move to Palestinian state
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Nations of the world honored Yasser Arafat as a head of state Thursday, with many joining the deceased leader&#39;s call for a quick transition to a Palestinian state living in peace with its neighbors.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials appealed yesterday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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New York, Oct. 6 (NNN): Arab countries have urged the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding Israel stop a massive military attack in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 83 Palestinian civilians so far dead in the past one week.
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The U.N. Security Council is   moving quickly to select a successor to Secretary-General Kofi   Annan in October, a procedure that favors front-runner South   Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  he would press both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for steps  to enable Palestinians to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat,  as he arrived in Israel on Sunday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed four areas where the United Nations can immediately help the African Union (AU) expand its cease fire-monitoring mission in
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JEDDAH, 15 November 2004 - With the Palestinian presidential election date fixed for Jan. 9, intense diplomatic moves are expected to begin this week to allow maximum participation and greater transparency
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Arab nations want the U.N. Security Council to help launch a new peace process to end the broader Arab-Israeli conflict, saying the "road map" unveiled in 2003 to establish a Palestinian state is dead.
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Israel demanded Sunday the United Nations investigate whether Palestinians filmed in the Gaza Strip were militants using a U.N. van to transport rockets for use against Israel.
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The Security Council urged the  African Union on Friday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia  so that Ethiopia could withdraw its forces and the government  could lift its emergency security measures.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls for Israel to lift its   blockade of Lebanon swiftly and to withdraw fully from the   country as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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The UN Security Council called an emergency meeting Monday at the request of Arab nations to consider a resolution demanding an immediate halt to a major Israeli offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged Palestinians and Israelis to work with the international community to make Yasser Arafatâs dream of two states living in peace a reality.
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Israel demanded Sunday the United  Nations investigate whether Palestinians filmed in the Gaza  Strip were militants using a U.N. van to transport rockets for  use against Israel.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas tells the UN that any new Palestinian government would recognise Israel.
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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.