Meeting with Hamas as well? They're terrorists and shouldn't be dealt with, IMO.
Meeting with Hamas as well? They're terrorists and shouldn't be dealt with, IMO.
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Palestine confirms Abbas ready to meet with Israeli PM in Moscow
World
January 13, 11:42 UTC+3
Russia’s top diplomat stresses the need for direct talks between Israel and Palestine for achieving peaceful settlement
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
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MOSCOW, January 13. /TASS/. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas confirms readiness to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Saeb Erekat said on Friday.
"Mahmoud Abbas earlier declared his readiness to take part in these talks in Moscow, and we confirm it today," Erekat said.
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Palestinian FM hopes for Russian active role in resolving conflict with Israel
Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov confirmed earlier Moscow will host talks of leaders of Israel, Palestine when both sides are ready for this. "We were ready to receive the leaders of Israel and Palestine in Moscow back in September last year, and we are ready now when they can confirm their readiness," Lavrov said.
Russia’s top diplomat stressed that the need for direct talks between Israel and Palestine for achieving peaceful settlement is "long overdue."
Lavrov noted that Russia traditionally has a stance on the Middle East settlement that is based on the decisions of the UN Security Council. "You know this position very well," he added.
He also stressed the importance of restoring the Palestinian unity to promote peace process. "We are ready to provide all the necessary organizational support to the meeting of representatives of Palestinian movements held on the basis of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences," Lavrov said.
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You say that negotiations are better, Balu. ARE they ?
I could agree with you, if, one crucial condition was met by the Palestinians and Hamas. Namely, that they unconditionally renounce all violence and verifiably disarm.
But you see, Balu, that's exactly the problem, right there. No terrorist organisation would willingly agree to renounce violence or disarm .. they have to be forced to, through action taken to enforce this.
Hamas in particular has not only failed to even consider disarming, but has also failed to renounce to any degree WHATEVER, its foundling policy of Israel's destruction. They remain loyal to their original, foundling Charter.
So YOU tell ME, Balu. Why on earth should these 'negotiating parties' be trusted an inch ?
I therefore reject your conclusion that negotiation is 'better'. I'd also like you to tell me, Balu, why Russia wants to militarily attack and defeat SOME terrorists, but by total contrast, unsupportably NEGOTIATE WITH and TRUST others !
As I've said, this severely strains, to say the least, any perception of Russia's supposedly 'anti-terrorist' credentials !!
It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!
Russian top doplomat calls upon leaders of Palestine’s parties to compromise
Russian Politics & Diplomacy
January 16, 18:06 UTC+3 MOSCOW
Russia welcomes the meeting of the Palestinian National Council’s preparatory committee, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted
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MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday met with the representatives of leading Palestinian parties to call upon them to work for achieving a compromise so crucial to the people of Palestine.
"You all know very well that our country is a high-principled and persistent advocate of restoring Palestinian unity and of overcoming the split that occurred ten years ago," Lavrov said. "We have been able to see more than once that the absence of unity has an adverse impact on the solution of the Palestinian problem."
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"We are certain that to ensure the unalienable rights of the Palestinian people it is necessary to conclude no easy but crucial compromises," Lavrov said. "You share a common goal of creating an independent and viable Palestinian state, which lives side by side with its neighbors. We know that a number of states are keen to help you regain unity."
"The urgency of and need for movement towards unity begin to conquer minds," he said.
Russia, Lavrov said, welcomes the meeting of the Palestinian National Council’s preparatory committee, where an important decision was made to confirm the policy of consolidation and of forming through joint efforts a government of national unity, whose competence would spread to all Palestinian territories.
"We do hope that today’s meeting and your contacts between each other will not just help make this decision a fine declaration, but also turn into action," Lavrov said.
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http://tass.com/politics/925313
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