Abbas presses Olmert to begin drafting agreement
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will seek Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's undertaking to begin drafting a proposed agreement on statehood principles during talks on Monday, Abbas aides said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as early as Sunday, before a unity government with Hamas is formed, officials said on Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM -- Aides are planning a long-awaited summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, which could revive peace talks, officials from both sides said yesterday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Abbas and Olmert last week to push forward such dialogue, stalled by regional violence, the election of a Hamas-led government, and the ...
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New President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday  he was close to reaching a deal with militants to cease attacks  on Israelis, a step needed to relaunch Middle East peacemaking.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will demand Israel commit to a freeze on all settlement construction at a peace summit Thursday, the first since the two sides agreed to resume peace talks at a U.S.-sponsored conference last month.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on  Tuesday for his people to pursue negotiations instead of  violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of  strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat's death.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected on Monday to urge Hamas Islamists to agree to early elections, cede control of the Gaza Strip and hold talks with his Fatah faction, a Palestinian official said.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian Authority presidency, said Sunday that Palestinians wanted to begin negotiating final statehood terms with Israel as soon as possible and hoped to reach an accord by the end of next
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Ehud Olmert said today he is willing to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state if the new government headed by president Mahmoud Abbas pledges to combat terrorism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to discuss selective security amnesties designed to shore up his West Bank administration against rival Hamas Islamists.
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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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Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that achieving peace in the region needs a full Israeli readiness for that.
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Mahmoud Abbas, sworn in as Palestinian Authority president Saturday, said he is extending his hand in peace to Israel and called for a cease-fire, but he made no mention in his inaugural speech of how he would deal with Palestinian militants, the most pressing issue on his agenda.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told President Bush in a telephone call Monday that now is the time to resume Mideast peace talks, a spokesman said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Saturday he would meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and work closely with him to advance peace efforts.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, a day after saying an upcoming Mideast peace conference would not result in a final deal with the Palestinians and may not take place at all
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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority also declared his readiness to hold talks with IsraelÂs prime minister.