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| US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinian leaders on Thursday that a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall is meant to get
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-August-2007
10:10:25 AM |
| US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinian leaders on Thursday that a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall is meant to get them closer to establishing an independent state and that Israel is ready now to discuss fundamental issues.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, during a meeting with Rice, also signaled willingness to compromise, saying he's ready to work on a ''declaration of principles'' as a step toward a full peace deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert floated such an idea last week, but Abbas hadn't commented until Thursday.
Rice met with Abbas at his headquarters and signed an agreement granting the Palestinians $80 million for reform of their security services.
She said she's likely be back in the region before this fall's international conference, which is being promoted by the US administration.
Hamas denounced the latest show of US support for Abbas and the Cabinet of moderates he installed after firing the Hamas-led government following the Islamic militants' violent takeover of Gaza in June.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Rice ''is not coming to establish a Palestinian state but to build death squads that will work against resistance groups, including Hamas.''
In the West Bank, Rice said in a joint news conference with Abbas that US President George W Bush wants to see progress toward Palestinian statehood at the conference.
Rice said regional leaders, including those in Saudi Arabia, told her during her current Mideast swing that the conference must deal with issues of substance.
''Prime Minister Olmert told me last night that he, too, shared that view, that this was a meeting that ought to be and needs to be substantive and meaningful and that will, in fact, help get to a two-state solution,'' Rice said.
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