Quartet backs EU funding mechanism for Palestinians
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The diplomatic quartet on Middle East peace endorsed a European Union proposal for a temporary mechanism to funnel aid to the Palestinians, bypassing the Hamas-led government.
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The quartet of Middle East mediators is expected to back U.S. plans to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves and hear from new special envoy Tony Blair when it meets in Portugal on Thursday.
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The European Union will resume direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
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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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The European Union on Monday  raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's  breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008
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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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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 European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said Monday.
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LAPPEENRANTA, Finland  - The European Union has   begun paying social allowance to hundreds of thousands of needy   Palestinians under a temporary mechanism agreed by the Quartet   of Middle East peace brokers.
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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 Monday.
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France Thursday expressed support for a planned conference on the Middle East to be held early next year in London, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying it is vital to help the Palestinian Authority to ...
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The European Union is not yet ready to resume aid to the Palestinian government despite the unity accord signed last week in Mecca, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has said.
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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.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - The European Union on Monday raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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European Union leaders pledged Friday to work with a new Palestinian unity government as long as its programme takes into account the demands of the international Quartet on the Middle East.
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Germany, president of the European Union, urged a new Palestinian unity government on Friday to comply with the three conditions set out by the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators.