Abbas calls for 'negotiated peace' with Israel
AFP
Date: 03-29-06
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas has called on the incoming Israeli government to work for a "negotiated peace" after the election win by Ehud Olmert's ruling Kadima party."Parties won seats, others lost, but the number of seats is not the most important thing," said Abbas after returning from an Arab summit in Sudan.
"What is most important is the policy of the new government which will probably be a coalition. It should change its attitude and adopt a policy based on a negotiated peace and international law," he added.
Abbas was speaking after arriving in the Gaza Strip to swear in the first ever Palestinian government led by radical Islamist movement Hamas, which won a landslide election victory on January 25.
Israel has refused to have any dealings with an administration dominated by a group responsible for scores of suicide bombings in the Jewish state and which refuses to recognise its right to exist, unless it changes its ways.
Speaking in Khartoum earlier Wednesday, Abbas urged Olmert, Israel's acting prime minister Olmert to abandon plans to set the borders of the Jewish state unilaterally after his election victory.
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