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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10673
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) middle east

Israel hopes to keep Abbas out of peace talks

Brussels, 23/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on the Quartet for the Middle East (United Nations, Russia, European Union, United States), on Tuesday 21 August, to organise elections in Palestine so that President Mahmoud Abbas is kept away and so that the peace process might be reactivated. In a letter sent to the Quartet, the Israeli minister explains that Abbas “apparently is uninterested or unable to reach an agreement which will bring an end...