Donors meet in Paris to back Middle East peace bid
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More than 60 countries meet in Paris on Monday to underwrite renewed Middle East peace talks with pledges of aid for the Palestinian government, locked in a power struggle with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel will not attend a Middle East conference in London early next year but backs its stated aim of fostering Palestinian reform in pursuit of peace after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, a senior official says.
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France hosts an international aid conference aimed at reviving the state of the Palestinian economy.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.
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The leading sponsors of the "road map" peace plan will send top officials to the West Bank next week in a renewed effort to revive the internationally backed peace plan, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said Thursday.
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The senior Palestinian officials hoping to come to France to visit their ailing leader Yasser Arafat put off their trip on Monday because Arafat&#39;s wife was opposed to it, a Palestinian official said.
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French President Jacques Chirac called for the United States and Europe to &quot;rally together&quot; to revive the Middle East peace process, declaring the matter urgent following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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France will hold political talks with four leading Palestinian leaders who prepared to visit ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites ) in a hospital near here, French Foreign Minister Michel ...
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HOPES of progress towards Middle East peace rose last night after Israel and the Palestinian Authority backed Tony Blairâs call for a London conference that could be a step towards the opening of negotiations on a final settlement.
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The quartet of Middle East peace brokers backed a U.S. push to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks on Friday but voiced deep concern about violence among Palestinians that threatens to undermine the effort.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, raising the level of international efforts to revive Middle East peacemaking following Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Lebanon's political groups are meeting in France to try to end a prolonged political crisis gripping the nation.
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Donors to the Palestinians are asking  whether the change of leadership can let more light into Palestinian finances.
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Arab, Muslim and Western nations gather  in Morocco on Saturday in an effort to promote economic and  political reform in the Middle East that is widely seen within  the region as U.S. meddling.
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PARIS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Representatives of 50 industrial countries and  international institutions have pledged 7.6  billion dollars to a  recovery plan for Lebanon at a donor conference in Paris  Thursday. The  fresh aid certainly buys time for the embattled  government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad  Siniora, but it  remains doubtful if it can buy it peace.
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Arab and Israeli leaders hold a summit in Egypt, in a show of support for Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined British and German allies pledging Friday to help Israel and the Palestinians seize an opening for peace in the Middle East. They also said diplomacy can neutralize a nuclear threat in Iran.