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Hamas tells Arabs to honour aid pledge
 The Palestinian foreign minister has called on Arabs to fulfil their promises of financial assistance to the Palestinian government. For their part, Arab officials, at a meeting between Mahmoud al-Zahar and the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Saturday, urged the Hamas-led Palestinian government to consider an Arab plan to end the conflict with Israel that calls for exchanging land for peace. Al-Zahar said he would discuss the initiative with the others in the government but pointed out that Israel had not yet accepted the deal. "I will convey all that I heard to every decision-maker and make a clear picture about the initiative. But the problem is: Does the other party accept it?" al-Zahar said after a meeting with Amr Moussa, the Arab League secretary-general, and other Arab envoys.At a summit in Sudan last month, the Arab leaders said a 2002 peace-for-land initiative is the Arab world's only option for ending the conflict with Israeli, suggesting that a Hamas government should accept the plan. Israel has never committed itself to the initiative. Posted by: Fred 2006-04-16 |
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