EU looking to restart direct Palestinian aid
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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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Sponsors of an internationally backed Middle East peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting peace talks in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Thursday.
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The European Union should establish contact with Hamas, the proscribed Islamist group, the holder of the EU's presidency has proposed.
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Sponsors of an internationally backed Mideast peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting peace talks in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.
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The European Union on Friday hailed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' move to form a national unity government to replace one led by Hamas, whose strident anti-Israel views have dried up international aid.
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The United States and Europe Monday restored direct aid to the Palestinians in a show of support after president Mahmud Abbas fired a Hamas-led government following internecine clashes.
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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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The Palestinian Authority made the request at a one-day meeting of big international donor nations began in Paris.
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The European Union on Friday condemned the &quot;violent&quot; seizure of power by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and joined the United States in backing beleaguered Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
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European leaders told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that a unity government must clearly recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals for sanctions to end, Abbas aides said on Sunday.
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The European Union supports Syria&#39;s  goal of regaining the occupied Golan Heights from Israel, the  EU foreign policy chief said after meeting President Bashar  al-Assad on Wednesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Prodded by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that they are ready to resume contacts without conditions -- a small step that many people hope could lead to resuming peace talks.
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The European Union should welcome the setting up of a new Palestinian government of national unity as an opportunity to renew the Middle East peace process, the EU's Finnish presidency has said.
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JERUSALEM -- European leaders told the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, that a unity government must clearly recognize Israel, renounce violence, and accept interim peace deals in order for sanctions to end, Abbas aides said yesterday.
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Israel sought on Monday to shore up  European support for a U.S.-backed strategy of isolating Hamas  in Gaza while freeing funds for President Mahmoud Abbas&#39;s  emergency cabinet in the occupied West Bank.
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Germany's Angela Merkel repeats the EU's demand that a new Palestinian government must recognise Israel.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday some European countries had decided to resume aid to the Palestinian government, which has been crippled by a Western funding freeze since Hamas rose to power.