Sharon and Abbas say they ready to meet
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said in an interview that he is ready to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and try to coordinate a Gaza pullout with a new Palestinian government.
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Israel is ready to work with a ``responsible&#39;&#39; Palestinian Authority leadership on coordinating an Israeli plan to withdraw settlements from the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Sunday, officials said, but both sides sought to play down the chances of progress.
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Israeli leader Ehud Olmert told Tony  Blair on Saturday he was ready to meet the Palestinian  president as the British prime minister began a visit to try to  revive Middle East peace negotiations.
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Ahead of an expected meeting between both sides&#39; foreign ministers in The Hague, Sharon told Newsweek magazine that he was ready to meet with the post-Yasser Arafat leadership whenever they wanted.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed yesterday to meet in Egypt next week for the highest-level talks between the two sides in more than four years of violent conflict.
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Israel's prime minister says he is ready for talks with the Palestinian leader, after talks with UK PM Tony Blair.
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British PM meets Israeli counterpart ahead of his landmark talks with PLO chief in Ramallah. By Peter Walker - JERUSALEM. British Prime Minister Tony Blair met his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon Wednesday
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he was ready to meet unconditionally with the Israeli leader, possibly paving the way for a resumption of long-stalled peace talks.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister reportedly says he&#39;s willing to meet with the new Palestinian leadership to discuss his plans to withdrawal from Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Sunday for their second summit in a month, Israeli media reported Friday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas discussed in broad terms yesterday the issues most important to the creation of a Palestinian state in advance of a US-sponsored peace conference proposed for this fall.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday that he was prepared to start negotiations with a new responsible Palestinian leader after Arafat&#39;s departure, the Ha&#39;aretz daily reported.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks on Tuesday to prepare for a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference that Abbas cautioned could turn out to be pointless.
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Israel&#39;s prime minster and the man expected to lead the Palestinians following the death of Yasser Arafat are willing to meet, they said at the weekend.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet on Tuesday that he hopes to meet newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the "near future" &#151; the latest sign that the two sides are trying to work toward peace after years of stalemate.