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Road map "no longer exists": Meshaal
 Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bacheer held talks on Tuesday with the visiting Palestinian Islamic resistant movement's politburo chief Khaled Mishal who said the road map was no longer "alive" and vowed to pursue the armed struggle as long as the Israelis continue occupying Palestinian territories.Emerging from the meeting with Al-Bacheer, Mishal told journalists that he briefed the president "about developments of the Palestinian cause and the movement's perspective with regard of current conditions" on the Palestinian arena, adding that he consulted the president on the needed support for the "Palestinian people in shadow of threats to isolate it after Hamas won elections." Asked about his reaction to a call by UN Secretary General kofi Annan on the movement to surrender guns and stop the armed struggle, Mishal said Annan's call "is unrealistic as most of the territories are under occupation and we will continue to defend our people until the occupiers withdraw from the territories. The international community must coerce Israel into recognizing our rights." He added that the road map "no longer exists" because Ariel Sharon refused to recognize borders of 1967 and right of the Palestinians in diaspora to return home." "There is no road map ... only the Arabs are speaking about it," Mishal said at conclusion of a two-day visit by a Hamas delegation. Posted by: Seafarious 2006-02-15 |
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