Tag: Mahmud Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas warns UN on Donald Trump’s ‘swiss cheese’ peace

The draft no longer calls for an international conference on the Middle East “at the earliest possible date,” instead, replacing that language with a reminder that such a call was made in a 2008 UN resolution.

February 12, 2020

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to visit UN in next two weeks

The diplomat expressed hope that the agreement would have been reached on a draft resolution.

January 30, 2020

Palestinian president says Israel ‘ended’ Oslo accords

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Monday that Israel has “ended” the landmark Oslo peace accords of the 1990s with its actions. “I am saying that Oslo, there is no Oslo,” he said at the start of a meeting of Palestinian leaders called to discuss US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. …

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January 15, 2018

Mahmud Abbas freezes Israel contact over holy site dispute

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said he was freezing contacts with Israel over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site, after deadly clashes erupted earlier in the day. Abbas said in a speech that the freeze would stay in place until Israel lifted the measures at the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound, which Jews refer to …

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July 22, 2017

Trump invites Palestinian leader Abbas to White House ‘soon’

Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to visit the White House sometime soon, both sides said after the first phone call between the pair since the US president took office in January. Trump invited Abbas "to visit the White House soon to discuss ways to resume the (Palestinian-Israeli) political process," the official Palestinian …

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March 11, 2017

Abbas warns over Trump US Israel embassy move

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas warned on Saturday that moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would deal a huge blow to hopes for Middle East peace. Commenting as he opened a Palestinian embassy at the Vatican, Abbas added that anything which legitimised the "illegal Israeli annexation" of Jerusalem would "bury the hopes for a …

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January 14, 2017