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| Deposed Hamas gov't asks Abbas to stop meeting with Olmert |
| 2008-02-20 |
| (Xinhua) -- The deposed Hamas government Tuesday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop his "playful" meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "We call on and advise President Abbas to immediately halt these meetings which don't help the Palestinian people," said Taher al-Nounou, spokesman for the government that Abbas fired last June when Hamas took over Gaza Strip by force. "The meetings take place despite the continuation of the aggression, assassinations and the plans to make Jerusalem Jewish," al-Nounou continued. Abbas and Olmert are due to meet in Jerusalem later in the day to discuss ways of speeding up negotiations that were resumed at a U.S.-hosted peace conference last November. "This meeting is one of the useless summits which only give justifications for the occupation to keep on its aggression and terror on the Palestinian people," al-Nounou added. The discussions will take place as Olmert threatens to boost restrictions on fuel deliveries to the impoverished Hamas-run territory in response to the stepped-up rocket attacks against Israel. Al-Nounou said the Palestinian Presidency and Israel "have common interests to build pressure on the Palestinian (Hamas) government and force Gaza to give up." |
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