Brussels, 21/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - The president-in-office of the European Council, Chancellor Angela Merkel, held a telephone conversation on Wednesday with the president of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas. Their discussion was on the Middle East peace process as well as the new Palestinian government of national unity. According to a press release from the German EU presidency, Ms Merkel welcomed the fact that this government had already brought “pacification within Palestine”. She...