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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Up until now we haven't asked anyone to form a government. But we've negotiated with some of the factions and, of course, we will ask the party that has received the most votes to do so.
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Of course, I am going to ask the majority party to form the government.
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Until now, we haven't asked anyone to form the government. We are carrying on contacts with all factions, and of course we will ask the party that won the majority to form the government.
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All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void.
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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?
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I hope that they will change their position in future. I try night and day to convince them to adopt my policies, which are moderate. If they do not, they will end up totally isolated, and thus incapable of accomplishing their mission.
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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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It was a good meeting, ... We discussed the (Gaza) agreement reached yesterday. We discussed the continuation of such meetings.
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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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The two leaders will not meet today because negotiators are still engaged in talks to prepare for the meeting. There will be another meeting tonight to try to finalize a joint document.
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We look with great worry on what might happen if (Sharon) is impaired.
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We will not hesitate to get into such a negotiation. The way to peace is to sit together at the negotiation table, not the path of killings and unilateral actions.
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We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks on government institutions and state land to continue, ... No one is above the law.