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Arabs set conditions for Mideast conference participation - report
Oct 1, 2007, 7:37 GMT
London - Arab states have been imposing ever more specific conditions for their participation in the Mideast conference planned by US President George W Bush, the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily reported on Monday.
'We don't need a photo opportunity,' Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Illah al-Chatib told the London-based paper.
Most Arab governments would now be willing to attend the Washington conference scheduled for November 'if there was real progress between Palestinians and Israelis, which led to negotiations within a few months,' he said.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Amre Mussa, told the paper Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was still empowered and able to negotiate with Israel in the name of all Palestinians, even after the radical Islamist Hamas had taken over the Gaza Strip.
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