Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, is the President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority. He has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organizationsince 11 November 2004 and has been Palestinian president since 15 January 2005. Abbas is a member of the Fatah party...
NationalityPalestinian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1935
CitySafed, Israel
CountryPalestine, State of
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There is a difficult mission ahead -- to build our state, to achieve security for our people, to provide a good life for our people, to give our prisoners freedom, our fugitives a life in dignity, to reach our goal of an independent state,
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spending time and energies to move the process forward.
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Any aggression against our foreign guests represents a challenge to the rule of law and we will not permit it.
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The Israelis say: 'OK, we'll impose a unilateral solution' - which means that they will postpone, delay the struggle and they will not solve the problem.
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If Mr. Sharon is facing internal problems, then I say he cannot solve one problem by creating another, ... It was the correct decision to withdraw from Gaza, and this is a good thing, and he now must continue with the peace process.
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If there is proof that the bombers came from inside, we will deal, as usual, with the problem and meet our responsibilities fully.
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If the preparations can be finalized, there is nothing to prevent this meeting.
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If we build this confidence together, that will lead to other important steps,
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If we want a successful meeting, we should prepare for it, ... If this is done, then there is no obstacle to holding the meeting.
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In the end you both live in the same place ... You aren't far apart like the United States and Japan,
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If I feel that I can't fulfill this program ... then the seat is not my ultimate ambition.
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I am optimistic and I expect that we will reach an overall agreement with everybody for a complete cease-fire in all the territories,
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I don't want to talk about whether firing these rockets is important or not, but I wanted to talk about the destructive consequences. No one of us could forget last week's tragedy when a father and his son were killed by a rocket.
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I'm giving the facts. They (the monitors) left at 9:20 a.m., and the Israelis came in at 9:30 a.m. How can we explain that?