Abbas Meets Hamas to Urge Unity Pact
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GAZA CITY, 16 November 2004 - Trying to put the Gaza gunfight of Sunday behind it, the new Palestinian leadership held a series of talks aimed at creating what one called âa national accordâ ahead of presidential elections in two months.
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday called on Socialist leaders gathered in Geneva to support his attempts to isolate the Islamist Hamas movement, which has taken control of the Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas   said on Sunday talks on a Palestinian unity government could   still succeed, brushing aside President Mahmoud Abbas's comment   that they had reached "point zero" and must start from scratch.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas has frozen talks on forming a unity government   after Hamas said it would not accept existing peace deals with   Israel, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Hamas is serious about coalition talks with President Mahmoud Abbas and wants them to succeed, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday.
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Palestinian leader Abbas meets the German chancellor to press for support for a unity government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas has frozen talks on forming a unity government   after Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with   Israel, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held crisis talks with Hamas in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in an effort to forge a unity government and end internecine violence that has killed scores since December.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday in a new effort to narrow differences on making peace before a U.S.-hosted conference due later this year.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas has   frozen talks on forming a Palestinian unity government after   Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with Israel,   two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)  chief Mahmoud Abbas met militant leaders on Tuesday in a bid to  halt attacks on Israel and allow a smooth election for a  successor to Yasser Arafat next year, officials said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will meet Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip as   early as Monday to try to revive stalled talks on a unity   government, aides said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, bolstered by a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said on Wednesday unity talks with Hamas were dead and he might dissolve the Hamas-led government.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh   of Hamas said on Monday he was close to agreeing a unity   government with President Mahmoud Abbas, which Palestinians   hope will lead to a lifting of Western sanctions.
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Hamas's exiled political leader urges Palestinian unity amid rising tensions and violence between Hamas and Fatah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon The militant group Hamas is calling for unity among Palestinian leaders and says it&#39;s setting aside differences with an ailing Yasser Arafat.