Palestinian Leaders Seek Unity Ahead of Presidential Elections
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Palestinian leaders scrambled Friday to avoid a rift within their ranks as they prepare for January 9 general elections to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considering calling presidential and legislative elections to strengthen his position, a top aide said yesterday, a move that could deepen the split between the West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
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President Viktor Yushchenko and sometimes ally Yulia Tymoshenko called for unity Thursday, staging a televised meeting just days before Ukraine's crucial parliamentary elections.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected on Monday to urge Hamas Islamists to agree to early elections, cede control of the Gaza Strip and hold talks with his Fatah faction, a Palestinian official said.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 9--Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is inclined to call early elections, including for his own office, to end the political and economic crisis in the territories, Palestinian officials said Saturday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday vowed to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government threatened to unravel in the Gaza Strip.
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The militant Palestinian group Hamas said Friday it was setting aside its differences with ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called for a united Palestinian leadership to work toward general elections.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to establish a unity government including the moderate Fatah party to replace the administration led by the Islamic militant group Hamas, a step that Palestinians hope will lead to the lifting of an international funding freeze that has crippled the government since Hamas took office in March.
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Hamas's exiled political leader urges Palestinian unity amid rising tensions and violence between Hamas and Fatah.
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Yasser Arafat lay in critical condition  in a French hospital on Saturday and Hamas militants in Gaza  said there was an urgent need for unity among Palestinian  leaders.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals prepared on Tuesday for talks on a unity government, with less than two weeks to go until a new bid to revive stalled peace negotiations with Israel.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical condition  in a French hospital on Saturday and Hamas militants in Gaza  said there was an urgent need for unity among Palestinian  leaders.
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GAZA CITY, 16 November 2004 - Trying to put the Gaza gunfight of Sunday behind it, the new Palestinian leadership held a series of talks aimed at creating what one called âa national accordâ ahead of presidential elections in two months.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and other rival Palestinians called for unity on Saturday in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is inclined to call early elections, including for his office, to end the political and economic crisis in the territories, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed yesterday to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government appeared close to collapse in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for early elections to end the stalemate between factions in Gaza and the West Bank on Saturday. Violence has flared between supporters of Abbas' Fatah movement and Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in January. Tensions between Palestinians are at their worst point in a decade. On Friday, Hamas accused Fatah of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.