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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Abbas says talks with Israel still on table
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says talks with Israel are still on the table.
Abbas was addressing the Palestinian leadership at the opening of a two-day conference in the West Bank to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority, whose existence is under threat after Israel cut off a key source of funding in the wake of the PA’s move to join the International Criminal Court in December.
“We ask all countries of the world to recognize the state of Palestine,” he says.
“But we want to say to the Israeli side, these recognitions do not mean in any way that we do not want to negotiate, or that we’re running away from negotiations,” he adds.
— AFP contributed to this report
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