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EU agrees to deal with non-Hamas Palestinians
 European Union foreign ministers backed an Arab peace initiative on Saturday and agreed to engage with ministers of the new Palestinian national unity government who are not members of the Islamist Hamas movement. They voiced full support for the Arab plan revived at a summit in Riyadh this week offering Israel peace and relations in exchange for a complete withdrawal from Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and a solution the Palestinian refugee problem. The international community should not lose that opportunity for peace. We have already lost many opportunities, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told reporters after the EU ministers discussed the Middle East. We have a pragmatic position to deal with all interlocutors that are not members of Hamas. The finance minister, the interior minister and the foreign minister are not members of Hamas, he said, at the meeting in Bremen, Germany. Posted by: Fred 2007-04-01 |
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