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Titolo: Russia’s Lavrov Slams Arrests of Palestinian Officials, Hamas MPs

Russia’s Lavrov Slams Arrests of Palestinian Officials, Hamas MPs
Created: 09.09.2006 14:20 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:20 MSK, 15 hours 48
minutes ago
MosNews
 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed Israel’s arrest of
Palestinian ministers and MPs from the governing Hamas, after talks with
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday. “It is unacceptable for
deputies and Palestinian ministers to be arrested,” he told a joint news
conference with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israel detained more than 60 elected Hamas officials, including a third of
the cabinet and more than two dozen deputies, after militants captured an
Israeli soldier and killed two others in a deadly cross-border raid on
June 25. Twenty-eight MPs including parliamentary speaker Aziz Dweik and
five cabinet ministers remain in detention.
Lavrov also urged Israel to stop building its controversial West Bank
barrier, Jewish settlements and its practice of “extra-judicial” killings
of militants, so that a road map for peace could be implemented.
Russia, along with the European Union, UN and US drafted the international
peace plan, which has made next to no progress since its launch in 2003.
Abbas said he and Lavrov had also discussed an Arab initiative to help
revive the blocked Middle East peace process, expected to be submitted to
the UN General Assembly this month. Lavrov said he supported the Arab
initiative. The Palestinian president stressed he was ready to meet
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “without conditions”. “We will not lay
out conditions but we want any meeting to be well prepared in order to get
results,” he said.
Abbas said efforts were under way to secure the release of an Israeli
soldier snatched by Gaza militants on June 25, in exchange for Palestinian
prisoners held in the Jewish state. “Just like his family is calling for
the Israeli soldier to return, we have 10,000 prisoners who have to return
to their families,” he said. Abbas said that should the Israeli soldier’s
case be resolved, he expected a “large number” of Palestinian prisoners to
be released.
Lavrov, who has embarked on a Middle East tour that took him earlier to
Lebanon and Syria, held talks with Olmert in Tel Aviv late Thursday.
Israel’s foreign minister, who also met Lavrov Friday said it was time the
Jewish state talked to the Palestinians, adding no conditions should be
put on meeting Abbas. But Tzipi Livni said that unless militants the
captured soldier, Abbas should expect nothing from talks.
Her comments were a softening of remarks by Vice Prime Minister Shimon
Peres, who said this week a summit between Olmert and Abbas would take
place only if the soldier was freed first. “In relation to a meeting with
Abu Mazen (Abbas), I do not think there need to be any conditions for such
a meeting,” Livni told a news conference in Tel Aviv with Lavrov. “It is
about time we found a way to talk with the Palestinians and with Abu Mazen
in order to find out whether there is a way to promote a process that can
lead in the future to a two-state solution.” But if Abbas wanted anything,
Israel would not be able to respond until Corporal Gilad Shalit was freed,
she said.
Ties between Israel and the Palestinians, badly strained when the militant
Hamas movement won elections in January, hit a new low after gunmen seized
the soldier and took him to Gaza. Israel launched an offensive in Gaza a
few days later that has killed around 210 Palestinians, half of them
civilians. Preparations for an Olmert-Abbas summit had been in the
pipeline, but were shelved after the abduction. 
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 Russia's Lavrov
Non pare Lavrov sia stato ricevuto a braccia aperte.
Né lui, né l'idea piuttosto balzana di conferenze di pace fatte prima
che si riesca a capire se esiste una minimale volontà di paese arabi
come le Siria di fermare le attività del terrorismo di Hezbollah e
Hamas.
Molto divertenti anche le osservazioni che Peres ha rivolto a Massimo
"alice nel paese delle meraviglie" D'Alema
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=760601&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

 Non pare Lavrov sia stato ricevuto a braccia aperte.
nemmeno la soldataglia israeliana in Libano. <g>

 n
No, decisamente no
Tb

 No, decisamente no
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