Israel upset by Argentina's recognition to Palestine

[Abu_Hurayrah]

JERUSALEM: Israel expressed disappointment Tuesday with Argentina’s recognition of a Palestinian state in territories Israel occupied in 1967, saying they undercut American-led efforts to create such a state through negotiations with Israel.

Argentina said its move, announced Monday just days after Brazil took a similar step, reflected the country’s deep frustration with gridlocked peace efforts.

But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said unilateral recognition was “counterproductive” to peacemaking.

“This disappointing and damaging decision is contrary to the existing Israeli-Palestinian agreements,” which call for the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of a peace treaty, Palmor said.

Peacemaking efforts ground to a halt in late September, just three weeks after they began, when Israel resisted US and Palestinian efforts to extend a moratorium on housing starts in West Bank settlements.

Palestinians say they won’t return to the negotiating table unless Israel halts all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.

The Palestinians want both territories, along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, for a future state.

The Palestinians say more than 100 countries have recognized a Palestinian state over the past two decades, most of them Muslim and former Soviet bloc countries. The United States and European Union — the major foreign powers involved in peacemaking — have not.

Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said Monday that in view of stalemated peace efforts, “The time has come to recognize Palestine as a free and independent state.” Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon played down the significance of the actions by Brazil and Argentina, telling Army Radio that the two nations are “distant” countries that “don’t realize the diplomatic mistake they made.” He said the declarations have no practical meaning.

Palestinian officials were buoyed by Argentina’s recognition.

Palestinian peace negotiator Nabil Shaath said Argentina’s recognition was significant because it is one of Latin America’s most developed countries and because it has a vibrant Jewish presence: Argentina has Latin America’s largest Jewish population and is the headquarters of the umbrella group for Latin America’s Jewish communities.

“We don’t say that such recognitions immediately end Israeli occupation, but it gives us a push forward and helps getting more recognition,” Shaath said, adding that in the future the Palestinians would focus their efforts on European countries.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he would give negotiations a chance first. But Palestinian leaders have said they would push for unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders if negotiations with Israel fail. And they have been lobbying for international support for their fallback option.

http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article210469.ece

[Abu_Hurayrah]

The Palestinians say more than 100 countries have recognized a Palestinian state over the past two decades, most of them Muslim and former Soviet bloc countries. The United States and European Union — the major foreign powers involved in peacemaking — have not.

Heeft Wikileaks daar iets over te melden????????????????????????????????????????

[Abu_Hurayrah]

China Prepared to Recognize Palestinian State

By Bader Al-Qahtani

Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhia Jun stressed that China is prepared to renew its recognition of a Palestinian state if the UN Security Council or the United Nations pass such a resolution. He pointed out that China was one of the first countries that recognized the PLO in the 1960s, noting that "the young generation may not know this information." He made this statement in response to a question by Asharq Al-Awsat on the possibility of his country taking a stand similar to that recently taken by some Latin American countries which recognized a Palestinian state.

Jun added: "China regards the Muslim world countries as allies in international affairs. We view our relations with the 57-member states of the OIC through a long-term strategy. We believe that our common interests are broad and we can enhance cooperation to confront the new challenges." He expressed Beijing's readiness to expand and enhance economic and cultural cooperation with the Islamic countries. This statement followed a visit by the Chinese deputy Foreign Minster to the ICO headquarters, the first visit by a high-ranking Chinese government official to the OIC headquarters.

For his part, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that the Chinese official's visit was within the framework of promoting relations, stressing that China backs the Islamic world causes, primarily the Palestinian issue. Ihsanoglu said: "The OIC states' official stand is congruous with China's at the United Nations and the Security Council in New York and at the Human Rights Council in Geneva." He added: "During this visit, we discussed our common goals and future plans and agreed on the need to promote political consultations between us and China."

According to the OIC, the Chinese official's visit is aimed at stimulating relations between the Islamic world states and China. Both parties agreed to develop ties between China and the Islamic world, represented by the OIC, and to set up a communication mechanism for political consultations between the two sides and for learning about the situation of the Muslim population in China.

Both sides reviewed the political issues of special importance, primarily the Middle East issues of which the Palestinian issue is pivotal, as well as the situation in Afghanistan, Sudan, and the Ivory Coast.

The Chinese delegation and the OIC secretary general also discussed economic cooperation between the Islamic states in Central Asia and China, and certain economic projects in Africa. Both sides reviewed the steps that have been taken in preparation for holding an academic seminar on links between the Islamic and Chinese civilizations and their historical bonds. Both sides agreed to hold the seminar in Istanbul to be followed by other seminars on other aspects of Islamic-Chinese relations.

During the meeting, the OIC secretary general discussed the previous visit he paid to the Chinese provinces of Xinjiang and Ningzia and praised the development projects established there to promote the standard of living of their Muslim population.

The Chinese delegation's visit to the OIC's headquarters is in return to a visit by the OIC secretary general Ihsanoglu to China in June. The Chinese deputy foreign minister described Ihsanoglu's visit to China as "historic," as it was the first by professor Ihsanoglu to Chine even though 40 years had passed since the establishment of the OIC.

Bron (http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=23504)

[Olive Yao]

Heeft Wikileaks daar iets over te melden????????????????????????????????????????

Dat hoeft niet, beste Abu_Hurayrah, want dit is algemeen bekend en daar hoeft dus geen telegram over verzonden te zijn.

Van de ambassade in Tel Aviv staan er nu 28 telegrammen op de site. Zou zeggen, neem een kijkje.

http://213.251.145.96/

Handig om het ip-adres te hebben.


Maar interessante ontwikkelingen dit.

[Abu_Hurayrah]

Palestinians to approach UN for state recognition


By MOHAMMED MAR'I | ARAB NEWS

Published: Dec 30, 2010 00:29 Updated: Dec 30, 2010 00:29

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority (PA) will present the UN Security Council (UNSC) with a draft of a resolution declaring statehood in the coming days, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said in a press statement that the resolution is scheduled to be filed when Bosnia takes the UNSC’s presidency in January.

Erekat added that the Palestinian leadership is “waiting for Bosnia to take the presidency of the Security Council.” The Palestinian negotiator expressed his hope that the US would not veto the move.

He added that Australia, Japan, Korea and New Zealand would recognize the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.

Erekat said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will leave for Brazil on Wednesday to lay the cornerstone of the Palestinian Embassy there on Jan. 1. Brazil recognized the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders in early December.

According to Erekat “the Israeli government is witnessing an international isolation that it hasn’t witnessed before.”

According to other reports the Palestinians will submit a proposal calling for a Security Council resolution to halt Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday that Palestinians expect wider recognition of their statehood in the coming year and it will mean more than the mere “Facebook state” predicted by an Israeli minister.

Fayyad said recognition by many countries would “enshrine” the Palestinians’ right to a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured along with East Jerusalem in a 1967 war.

Seventeen years of peace efforts had failed to deliver this promise, he told reporters. The current Israeli coalition’s stated commitment to a two-state solution could not be relied on “given the erosion that has taken place," he said.

Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador announced recognition of Palestinian statehood in the past month. Chile, Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua are reported to be weighing the same move.

“These are welcome developments,” Fayyad said.

However, the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that the US and Europe are straying from the idea of unilaterally establishing a Palestinian state.

The European Union has staved off Palestinian pressure in favor of waiting until an “appropriate” time, while the US House of Representatives passed a resolution this month saying only peace talks could set such a process in motion.

In September, the US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed after Israel refused to extend a 10-month moratorium over freezing settlement constructions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Abbas and other Palestinian officials had threatened to use other diplomatic options, including dissolving the Palestinian Authority, in case Israel keeps insisting not to freeze building settlements.

While the Palestinians say they are still committed to a negotiated peace deal, they have grown increasingly frustrated and have started taking alternative actions to put Israel on the defensive. As part of that campaign, they have been seeking unilateral recognition of an independent Palestinian state, even in the absence of a peace deal.

— With input from agencies

Palestinians to approach UN for state recognition - Arab News (http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article226163.ece)

[Abu_Hurayrah]

IMF praises Palestinian economic institutions

In a report, the International Monetary Fund says the Palestinian Authority has put into place the economic reforms needed for statehood.


Bob Moon: Israel is pushing back on the idea of Palestinian statehood. Officials in Jerusalem said today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will press his German counterpart in a meeting later this week to drop plans to endorse a Palestinian state.
At the same time, the Palestinian economy has won a key endorsement from the International Monetary Fund. It concludes the Palestinian Authority has built the framework to conduct sound economic policies and supervise a banking system. Marketplace's Alisa Roth reports.
<hr> Alisa Roth: With everything that's been going on in the Middle East lately, it's been easy to overlook the Palestinians. But the IMF has been on the ground, and it reports some economic progress.
The IMF says the Palestinian Authority is ready to handle the economic side of statehood. It has managed its budgets and built credible institutions, such as the Palestinian Monetary Authority, or PMA, which has taken on the role of central bank.
George Abed ran the PMA from 2005 to 2007. In that job, he helped implement a lot of changes.

George Abed: PMA has established its credentials as a very robust and efficient and effective institution in licensing and supervising banks and in maintaining good credit flow to the private sector.
The PMA can't do something else that central banks do, which is manage the currency, because the Palestinian Authority doesn't have its own currency yet.
The Palestinian economy grew 9 percent last year. But there are still big question marks, like high unemployment and Israeli controls on movement of people and goods. Edward Sayre is a professor of international development at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Edward Sayre: The ability to control its borders to determine the direction of trade is something that is critical for any geographic entity that wants to become a sovereign economic country.
When the U.N. General Assembly meets in September, the Palestinian Authority is hoping to win a resolution to be recognized as a state. And it hopes this IMF report will help.
In New York, I'm Alisa Roth for Marketplace.


Bron: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/04/06/pm-imf-praises-palestinian-economic-institutions/

[Abu_Hurayrah]

Palestinians to seek UN membership if no peace

UNITED NATIONS: The Palestinians say that if a peace treaty with Israel isn’t reached by September, their first choice is to go to the UN Security Council with such strong support and arguments that it would recommend admission of Palestine as a new member of the United Nations.

That would require convincing the US, Israel’s ally, not to veto a resolution supporting membership for an independent Palestinian state, which won’t be easy.

But Riyad Mansour, the top Palestinian diplomat at the UN, said in an interview with The Associated Press that there are other options to achieve the goal through the UN.

He said September looms large for the Palestinians because “there are so many things that will converge.” First, Israel and the Palestinians agreed on President Barack Obama’s target of September 2011 for a peace agreement, a date endorsed by the European Union and much of the world. Second, the two-year program to build the infrastructure of a Palestinian state will be complete, and third, the Palestinians hope two-thirds of the 192 UN

member states will have recognized Palestine as an independent state, Mansour said.

Obama announced in September 2010, as US-brokered direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations resumed, that a peace treaty should be signed in a year, but those talks collapsed weeks later after Israel ended its freeze on building settlements.

The Palestinians insist they will not resume peace talks until Israel stops building settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — lands it captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which the Palestinians want for their future state. Israel maintains that the Palestinians should not be setting conditions for talks and that settlements didn’t stop them negotiating in the past.

“Our preference what should happen in September is to have a peace treaty with the Israelis to end the occupation to allow for our independence and our membership in the United Nations,” Mansour said.

The US has been heading efforts to restart negotiations but Mansour said the Palestinians want the Quartet — the mediating group consisting of the US, UN, European Union and Russia — to take the lead.

Mansour expressed regret that the US blocked a Quartet meeting tentatively scheduled for last Friday in Berlin to discuss, and hopefully endorse, the outlines of a peace settlement proposed by Britain, France and Germany. A US official said a Quartet meeting wouldn’t produce anything that would help restart direct talks.

But Mansour said Palestinian leaders “indicated willingness to go back to negotiations” if the Quartet agreed on the proposal by the three European countries.

It calls for an immediate halt to settlement activity, a solution to the question of Palestinian refugees, and agreement on the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of both countries and on borders before the 1967 Mideast war, with approved land swaps. It also called for security arrangements that respect Palestinian sovereignty and protect Israel’s security and prevent a resurgence of terrorism.

“We’re trying our best to open doors for negotiations,” Mansour said in the interview late Thursday. “The Israelis are choosing settlements over peace.” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said “the sooner the Palestinians agree to resume peace talks, the sooner we will all be able to take steps that will bring us closer to peace.”

The goal of establishing a Palestinian state, living in peace with Israel, “cannt state by 112 countries. Possible recognition by six others is being examined, he said, and “hopefully by September 2011 we will have 130, maybe 140 countries recognizing the state of Palestine.” That is important because UN membership not only requires a recommendation from the Security Council but approval by two-thirds of the General Assembly, or 128 countries.

“This is the end game,” Mansour said — the more countries the Palestinians have on their side, the more they can pursue independence, “whether in the Security Council or in the General Assembly or combined.” Mansour said the Palestinian preference is for Security Council action in September, backed by widespread recognitions, to “strengthen our argument” for statehood.

“We want to make it difficult for anyone to block our effort for securing membership in the Security Council,” he said.

If the US vetoes a Security Council resolution recommending statehood, there’s the option of going before the General Assembly, where there is no veto but resolutions are nonbinding.

Mansour said that among other options is a General Assembly resolution similar to that of 1947 that called for Palestine to be divided into Jewish and Arab states.

Another possibility advanced by some is “Uniting for Peace,” a General Assembly resolution that allows it to take action if it believes the Security Council has failed to head off a threat to world peace and security.

But that option would be hard to implement because it would require proving that denying the Palestinians UN membership threatens international peace and security.

http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article366371.ece

[John2]

Dat hoeft niet, beste Abu_Hurayrah, want dit is algemeen bekend en daar hoeft dus geen telegram over verzonden te zijn.

Van de ambassade in Tel Aviv staan er nu 28 telegrammen op de site. Zou zeggen, neem een kijkje.

http://213.251.145.96/

Handig om het ip-adres te hebben.


Maar interessante ontwikkelingen dit.

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[Abu_Hurayrah]

Hamas, Fatah reconciliation agreement reached in Egypt

Cairo, Jumada Al-Awwal 23, 1432 H/April 27, 2011, SPA -- After years of dispute, rival Palestinian factions
Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement mediated by Egypt
in Cairo on Wednesday, dpa cited Fatah officials as confirming.

The details of the surprise agreement would be revealed in a press
conference in Cairo later on Wednesday, Fatah official Azzam
al-Ahmad, who led his group's delegation in the talks, told the
German Press Agency dpa by telephone phone.

The deal creates a timeframe for legislative and presidential
elections and calls for the formation of an interim government, pan
Arab network Al Arabiya reported earlier.

Egyptian intelligence chief Murad Muwafi mediated the talks
between the Hamas delegation, led by Hamas politburo member Musa Abu
Marzuka, and a group from Fatah led by al-Ahmad.

A spokesperson for Hamas told Al Arabiya that all points of
disagreement, which include key issues related to borders and
security, were also resolved.

Egypt has frequently mediated reconciliation talks between Hamas
and Fatah, which is led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in
the past.

Relations between the two groups disintegrated after Hamas won
legislative elections in 2006 and took control of the Gaza Strip the
following year, limiting Fatah's control to the West Bank
territories.

--SPA
20:01 LOCAL TIME 17:01 GMT

Bron: http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/cdetails.php?id=887659&catid=9

[The_Grand_Wazoo]

Begrijp overigens niet waar de Palestijnen het lef vandaan halen om tegen hun heersers op te staan. Welbeschouwd is sinds de verovering van de Gazastrook en de Westelijke Jordaanoever Israel het legitieme gezag in die gebieden geweest ... en aangezien zij moskeebezoek niet hebben verboden hadden hun onderdanen geen recht om te protesteren, laat staan geweld te gebruiken, zo althans is het mij onlangs door een moslim met citaten en al uitgelegd.

[Abu_Hurayrah]

Begrijp overigens niet waar de Palestijnen het lef vandaan halen om tegen hun heersers op te staan. Welbeschouwd is sinds de verovering van de Gazastrook en de Westelijke Jordaanoever Israel het legitieme gezag in die gebieden geweest ... en aangezien zij moskeebezoek niet hebben verboden hadden hun onderdanen geen recht om te protesteren, laat staan geweld te gebruiken, zo althans is het mij onlangs door een moslim met citaten en al uitgelegd.

Niet zo gek doen jij.

[The_Grand_Wazoo]

Niet zo gek doen jij.

Wat is er zo gek? Jij bent degene die er serieus dergelijke ideeën op nahoud - ik toon je hooguit de onhoudbaarheid ervan.

[mark61]

Niet zo gek doen jij.

Degene die gek doet ben jij. Palestijnen kunnen vrijelijk de Ene aanbidden, dus volgens jouw wijsheid mogen ze niet in opstand komen tegen de machthebbers. Moet je zien wat een Kwaad ze aanrichten :jammer:

[Abu_Hurayrah]

Wat is er zo gek? Jij bent degene die er serieus dergelijke ideeën op nahoud - ik toon je hooguit de onhoudbaarheid ervan.

Jihaad wordt niet gevoerd om grondgebied, maar voor het vrij maken van de weg naar het verrichten van aanbidding, enkel voor Allah, zonder daarin deelgenoten toe te kennen in wat voor vorm dan ook.

[naam]

zonder daarin deelgenoten toe te kennen in wat voor vorm dan ook.

Wat bedoel je daarmee?

[Abu_Hurayrah]

Wat bedoel je daarmee?

Zoals bijvoorbeeld Shirk in liefde of Shirk in vrees, Shirk in het slachten, Shirk in het zweren enz.

[nour_islam]

dus m.a.w. doet grand-wazoo doet helemaal niet gek.
er wordt geen stro in de weg gelegd voor de aanbidding van de Ene, Allah. er is helemaal geen Jihad nodig

[Abu_Hurayrah]

dus m.a.w. doet grand-wazoo doet helemaal niet gek.
er wordt geen stro in de weg gelegd voor de aanbidding van de Ene, Allah. er is helemaal geen Jihad nodig

Mogen er dan moskeeën gebouwd worden in Israël zodat de mensen daar Allah volgens de meest authentieke godsdienst kunnen aanbidden?

Mag er da'wa gedaan worden in Israël zodat de mensen de Barmhartigheid van Allah kunnen binnen gaan?

[justus]

Mogen er dan moskeeën gebouwd worden in Israël zodat de mensen daar Allah volgens de meest authentieke godsdienst kunnen aanbidden?

Mag er da'wa gedaan worden in Israël zodat de mensen de Barmhartigheid van Allah kunnen binnen gaan?


alle moslims worden verjaagd....er is dus geen enkele reden om moskeeën te bouwen...
fijne menschen die othodoxies....:kotsen:

[mark61]

Mogen er dan moskeeën gebouwd worden in Israël zodat de mensen daar Allah volgens de meest authentieke godsdienst kunnen aanbidden?

Mag er da'wa gedaan worden in Israël zodat de mensen de Barmhartigheid van Allah kunnen binnen gaan?

De vraag was of mensen hun god kunnen aanbidden. Dat kan.

Nu verander je dat in het recht op uitbreiding en bekering :hihi:

Dat is waar de strijd van de Palestijnen over gaat?

[Abu_Hurayrah]

De vraag was of mensen hun god kunnen aanbidden. Dat kan.

Nu verander je dat in het recht op uitbreiding en bekering :hihi:

Dat is waar de strijd van de Palestijnen over gaat?

Wat jij uitbreiding en bekering noemt, noem ik de vrijheid om de Islam aan te kunnen nemen en de bijbehorende principes en kwaliteiten die een samenleving alleen maar goed kan doen. Jihaad is dus als het ware een bevrijding van het verbod op Moslim worden.

De strijd van de Palestijnen zou alleen daarom moeten gaan, niet om land.

Ik wil er wel even aan toevoegen dat een dergelijke strijd alleen onder een overheid gevoerd mag worden, eigen rechter spelen is in deze niet toegestaan.

Daar komt nog eens bij dat je er ook de middelen voor moet hebben, zelfmoord is niet toegestaan.

[Abu_Hurayrah]

-Merkel, Abbas call for quick resumption of Middle East peace talks


Berlin, Jumada II 2, 1432 / May 5, 2011, SPA -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas stressed Thursday the need to quickly resume
negotiations over the Middle East peace process, at talks in Berlin, dpa reported.

'Given the very changed situation across the entire North African
region, I think a peaceful solution is even more urgent ... than it
has been for a long time,'آ Merkel said.

At the same time the chancellor warned against unilaterally
recognizing an independent Palestinian state - a move that France has
threatened if negotiations did not advance.

'We do not think that unilateral steps are helpful,'آ the
chancellor said.

Following Wednesday's reconciliation between secular Fatah and
Islamist Hamas, Merkel warned that the Palestinian authorities must
respect three criteria - the recognition of Israel's right to exist,
a rejection of violence and a commitment to the negotiation process.

Abbas insisted that he remained the president of all Palestinian
people - including Hamas - and would continue to conduct the
political process on all their behalf.

'Signing the reconciliation between the Palestinians will have no
effect on the peace process, quite the opposite,' Abbas said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier told French daily
l'Express, 'If the peace process is still virtually dead in
September, France will take its responsibility on the issue of
recognizing the Palestinian state.'

More than 110 states have recognized an independent Palestinian
state, including several eastern EU members as well as Brazil, China,
India, Russia and South Africa.

Should the United Nations Security Council veto a request for
recognition, Abbas plans to put the question to the UNآ General
Assembly in September.

'We cannot tell the United Nations, 'You have to accept this.','
Abbas said.

'We are telling the world, this is the situation. We want to be an
independent state, what do you think? Can you accept that the
Palestinian people remain occupied?آ That is the question.'

--SPA
21:33 LOCAL TIME 18:33 GMT

Bron: http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/cdetails.php?id=890035&catid=9

[Abu_Hurayrah]

-France: Peace talks soon or Palestinian state


PARIS, Jumada II 2, 1432 / May 5, 2011, SPA -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he will support a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence if peace talks with Israel don't restart by September, dealing a tough setback to Israel's campaign to isolate the incoming Palestinian unity government, according to AP.
The comments published Thursday - similar to a message from Britain a day earlier - suggest Europe may be inching toward a watershed moment, joining those in favor of recognizing Palestine even if there is no peace deal with Israel.
Sarkozy's comments were published shortly before his meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is touring Europe to rally opposition against the Palestinians. Speaking to the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, Sarkozy was quoted as saying if talks between Israel and the Palestinians don't resume over the summer, France will help promote the international recognition of a Palestinian state.
'The idea that we have time is a dangerous idea, we must finish,' Sarkozy said.

-- SPA
19:41 LOCAL TIME 16:41 GMT

Bron: http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/cdetails.php?id=890013&catid=9

[Abu_Hurayrah]

-India Welcomes Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Accord

New Delhi, Jumada II 4, 1432, May 7, 2011, SPA -- India on Friday welcomed the
reconciliation agreement between Palestinian factions - Fatah and Hamas and hoped that it will promote the 'realization of aspirations' of the Palestinian people and lead to peace in the region.
'Government of India welcomes the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas and hopes that this would promote the realization of aspirations of Palestinian people,' said a statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs.
The Government also hoped that the agreement will lead to peace and stability in the region, the statement was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India (PTI).
Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday signed the landmark deal. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal reached the agreement which provides for creation of a joint caretaker Palestinian government ahead of the national elections next year.
--SPA
11:42 LOCAL TIME 08:42 GMT

Bron: http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/cdetails.php?id=890335&catid=10