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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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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An international conference should be summoned immediately, in which direct negotiations take place, on the basis of international UN resolutions and signed agreements.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon until now has not shown any readiness to sit together with the Palestinians to discuss all the outstanding issues,
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We want to do the right job at the right time because we want to act as a state, as a responsible authority. Therefore, we are following up on the subject seriously with our brothers in Egypt. Until we reach agreement, we should be patient.
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What's important is that we go through the election process first united but also...with sportsmanship and a spirit of transparency and fairness so that we can achieve the true democracy that we all want.
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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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We are so happy with this election festival. So far, it's going very well and we hope it will keep going well until the end without any troubles.
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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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Tomorrow they will start leaving part of the West Bank. It's a beginning of the full withdrawal from all the settlements. We will not close our eyes. We will not rest until they leave from all our land.
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This government will continue until the end of the election period,
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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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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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We look with great worry on what might happen if (Sharon) is impaired.
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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.