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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hopes that the year 2013 will be declared the year of Middle East peace settlement.
“We hope that this year will be declared the year of Middle East peace,” Abbas said in a statement relayed by Russian Itar-Tass news agency yesterday.
“Efforts should be taken to resume the serious and substantive peace process based on the resolutions, which were approved by the international community, and work out on the Arab Peace Initiative,” the Palestinian president said.
“Such move envisages stopping Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and forming the state within the 1967 borders with the capital in East Jerusalem – the state, which lived side by side with Israel in peace, good-neighbourliness and security,” Abbas stressed.
On behalf of the Palestinian people he expressed deep gratitude for Russia’s “tireless efforts to maintain peace in the region and provide political support to the Palestinian people on the way to make it independent and free.”
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hoped that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process would develop positively: “We will do all what depends on us,” he stressed.
President Abbas flew into the Russian capital last week on a two-day state visit at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
The two leaders discussed joint co-operation, the situation in the Middle East, and the possibility of the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.
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