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		Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. (Reuters)

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Abbas: We hope Mideast summit will propel peace process ahead

By The Associated Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he hoped for palpable progress toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Middle East peace to be held in November.

In a speech read to a conference on the rights of Palestinians, Abbas warned the seizure of the Gaza Strip by Islamic Hamas militants in June should not be an excuse for the international community to abandon the peace process.

"We hope that the conference called for by President George W. Bush will produce practical and palpable results to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," he said.

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The speech was delivered on behalf of Abbas by the Palestinian envoy to the European Union. Abbas was not at the conference in Brussels.

At a summit Tuesday, Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert talked for the first time about the core issues that have scuttled decades of peace efforts - Palestinian refugees, final borders and the fate of Jerusalem.

It was the first time Olmert and Abbas addressed the issues in depth and it represented an important building block for the November's peace conference. Before the meeting with Olmert, Abbas had warned the November conference would be a waste of time if the big three issues were glossed over.

Bush proposed the conference this fall after bloody infighting split the Palestinian leadership into two rival governments. His administration sees the bitter internal split as an opportunity to push for a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

The two-day conference on Palestinians' rights started Thursday at the European Parliament amid protests by Israel and some EU lawmakers, who said the event organizer - the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People - has an anti-Israeli agenda.

The UN committee, established in 1975, is chaired by Senegal. It has 22 member and 26 observer states.

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1.	Time for Abbas team to step aside	17:33	\|	El-Birawi	30/08/07

2.	Abbas- If you want the process to move ahead show flexibility	17:42	\|	Sam	30/08/07

3.	Who cares what the Dr of ShoaDenial / 1972 Munich Butcher says?	17:42	\|	Dudu	30/08/07

4.	Abbass - The Dreamer keep smoking that stuff	18:09	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	30/08/07

5.	Mideast Summit will propel peace process ahead if there is a	18:27	\|	Yaniv	30/08/07

6.	seizure of the Gaza Strip	18:52	\|	vik	30/08/07

7.	Let`s get real for a minute	19:01	\|	Robert	30/08/07

8.	Equitable & practical plan to sort out Hamas & end the occupation	19:03	\|	Uzi	30/08/07

9.	Step aside? Not my call. Just shut up sometime, could help	19:09	\|	Dave from Chicago	30/08/07

10.	ABBAS ON HIS LAST LEG	19:28	\|	Hani	30/08/07

11.	And the last fundamental point not made above for lack of space	19:29	\|	Yaniv	30/08/07

12.	The Yaniv Plan (#5)	19:41	\|	Robert	30/08/07

13.	Haarertz - How About Some Coverage On This EU Conference	19:45	\|	chet	30/08/07

14.	Yaniv, Your Offer is Rejected Squarely (1/2)	19:46	\|	Hani	30/08/07

15.	Yaniv, Your Offer is Rejected Squarely (2/2)	19:51	\|	Hani	30/08/07

16.	Civil War	19:52	\|	Silvienne	30/08/07

17.	El Birawi,agree with your assessment of the PLO-fatah crowd;but	19:56	\|	lakshmi	30/08/07

18.	Prophecies for 2008/2009	20:40	\|	Predictor	30/08/07

19.	Post #2 says it all. Palestinians need to compromise	21:23	\|	McQueen	30/08/07

20.	one state including 67 borders	21:28	\|	roberta	30/08/07

21.	Keep hoping	21:30	\|	Gazan	30/08/07

22.	Palestinians abandoned the "peace process" by voting for Hamas	21:50	\|	sigh	30/08/07

23.	Compromise?	21:56	\|	Bill	30/08/07

24.	Israel wants Piece, not Peace	22:11	\|	Rachel C.	30/08/07

25.	It is not possible to arrive at the horizon.	22:22	\|	Natallie Durson	30/08/07

26.	Push or perish	22:48	\|	smearnov	30/08/07

27.	#20, robreta	23:03	\|	Avi	30/08/07

28.	That UN commitee is pure trash! Ignore it!	23:09	\|	Benezra	30/08/07

29.	What results did you get from all these "summits", Abbas?	23:10	\|	Benezra	30/08/07

30.	At least the Calf was of Gold,Abbas is of sh.. and Israelis dance	23:10	\|	Absolute Sweden	30/08/07

31.	Palestinians call on the International Opinion again to no avail!	23:11	\|	Benezra	30/08/07

32.	Abbas! Jerusalem is Jewish, Mecca is Muslim.	23:14	\|	Benezra	30/08/07

33.	Bill- Deal with the real world	23:21	\|	Sam	30/08/07

34.	#26, smearnov	23:26	\|	Avi	30/08/07

35.	Keep "hoping"	23:27	\|	MA	30/08/07

36.	Yariv, 5 and 11	23:36	\|	Dalia	30/08/07

37.	Yaniv #	23:36	\|	I Understand	30/08/07

38.	Why is Abbas Smiling? Nasrallah!	23:37	\|	Yoram	30/08/07

39.	23Bill,the PLO made a compromise when they accepted 22% of land,	01:02	\|	lakshmi	31/08/07

40.	Abbas	01:04	\|	Nemesis	31/08/07

41.	You five points, Yariv, should be the basis for any future	06:58	\|	Ruhama	31/08/07

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