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World Jewish News
Abbas: PA won't control Rafah crossing for now
11.01.2009
Palestinian Authority forces are prepared to reassume control over the Rafah border crossing, but only after the PA reconciles with Hamas, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt was trying over the weekend to persuade Hamas leaders to agree to the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip and accept the latest United Nations Security Council calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire with Israel.
The Egyptians were also trying to convince Hamas to allow Abbas's security forces to return to the Rafah terminal in line with the 2005 US-brokered agreement that placed all the border crossings in the Gaza Strip under his control.
Abbas, who was speaking to reporters in Cairo after holding talks with President Hosni Mubarak, said he did not rule out the possibility that Hamas would be permitted in the future to participate in managing the terminal.
Источник: JPOST.COM
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