U.S. welcomes call for early Palestinian elections
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The White House on Saturday said it hoped that a call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for fresh elections would help calm violence and pave the way for getting the peace process back on track.
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The United States on Saturday welcomed a call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for fresh elections, expressing hopes it would quell factional violence and allow for a unity government that could work toward peace with Israel.
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: The Palestinian Prime Minister has urged the United States to stick to its original 2005 deadline for Palestinian statehood, arguing that the four-year time frame suggested by US President
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war.
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Israeli leaders told visiting Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday that they would do their utmost to allow Palestinians to hold a presidential election, including easing travel restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Israeli leaders Monday promised US Secretary of State Colin Powell to help the Palestinians elect a president. The elections, in the wake of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, are scheduled for Jan. 9.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday he would press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government came under strain in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened on Saturday to call early elections to end an impasse with Hamas but set no date for the vote, signaling he has not given up on forming a unity government with the Islamic militant group.
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The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, plans to meet moderate Palestinian leaders later this month in an early indication of America&#39;s readiness to become involved in a Middle East peace process.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will support an expected decision by a top P.L.O. decision-making body to call early elections.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - A U.S. envoy said before a  visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that Israel  should take steps to smooth the way for a Palestinian  presidential election set for Jan. 9.
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Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that Palestinian leadership has financial needs to hold the presidential elections.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel&#39;s unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).
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Palestinian leaders outlined plans Sunday to persuade visiting American envoys to pressure Israel into removing troops from urban areas to ensure smooth elections to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  called on Monday for an end to violence and urged Israel and  the Palestinians to facilitate Palestinian elections as he  sought to revive a long-dormant U.S. peacemaking role.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to call early elections, seeing little point in further talks on a government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West, aides said on Saturday.