Abbas to meet new French president on Friday

PA leader signs €10 million aid deal with French foreign minister

By Ilan Ben Zion
  • Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel.
8 June 2012, 8:19 am
PM Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia in Istanbul, June 5, 2012. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA World Economic Forum/ Norbert Schiller, Flickr)

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet Friday with newly installed French President Francois Hollande in Paris.

Abbas met Thursday with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and signed an agreement whereby France will transfer €10 million in aid to the PA in the coming few days.

Fabius said the assistance France is providing indicates the level of confidence Paris has in the PA and in the reforms it has enacted​​.

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