Israel, Palestinians Await Powell Visit
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Israel said before a visit by  Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would  consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to  facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Israel will do "everything in its power" to enable Palestinian elections to take place, the foreign minister said Monday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel late Sunday for his first direct talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials since the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on November 11.
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Israel and the Palestinians were unmoved by the resignation on Monday of Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as having taken a back seat to the White House in steering Washington&#39;s Middle East policy.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, facing his last weeks on the job, will travel to Israel and the West Bank to try to accelerate prospects for peacemaking, the State Department announced Tuesday.
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Colin Powell, the departing US Secretary of State, flies into Israel tonight to open a week of diplomacy aimed at helping to revive the Middle East peace process after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Israel said ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday that it would consider any formal request to pull troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Palestinian leaders will demand Secretary of State Colin Powell to pressure Israel to pullout its forces from disputed areas in the West Bank ahead of January elections to choose a successor to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a top Palestinian
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Friday Middle East peace cannot be rushed, as Palestinians  must first elect a president and both sides must begin to carry  out the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan, Nov. 29 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, as part of a U.S. effort to demonstrate progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
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Israel said before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Fairly or not, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has been perceived in Jerusalem over the last four years as the administration&#39;s &quot;bad cop,&quot; at least in regard to Israel.
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Colin Powell, the outgoing American secretary of state, voiced hopes yesterday for a revival in the Middle East peace process following his first meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in more than 18 months.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell embarked Sunday on a mission to revive the Middle East peace process after Yasser Arafat's death, saying he will ask Israel to help with the upcoming Palestinian election to pick a successor.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, arriving in Israel for his first visit in a year and a half, said he would work with Palestinian leaders to come up with an American
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said Monday that US Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to visit the West Bank next week to hold talks with the new Palestinian
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Colin Powell, the outgoing US secretary of state, was due to arrive in Jerusalem last night at the start of a concerted international effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after the death of Yasser Arafat.