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Palestine's Abbas says to make intensive contacts for int'l meeting on Mideast peace

Xinhua, March 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the Palestinian leadership will work hard for an international peace conference in the Middle East.

The remarks were made in a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in Ramallah. Abbas said the leadership will make intensive contacts with the Arab League and nations worldwide to ensure that there is such a meeting.

Abbas hasn't given a specific date for launching these contacts.

The Palestinian leadership welcomed a French initiative made in January which included a call for holding an international conference for achieving peace in the Middle East and ending decades of Israeli-Arab conflict.

Abbas also said that he hoped a political solution similar to the Iranian nuclear deal and the handling of Syrian crisis can be proposed to settle the conflict.

The peace talks between Israel and Palestine have been stalled since April 2014. The Washington-sponsored talks, which lasted for nine months, achieved no tangible results.

On Palestine's internal reconciliation, He noted that two delegations representing his Fatah Party and Hamas movement will head again to Qatar soon to seek a path towards ending their feuds. Endit