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		Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas speaking on Sunday at a press conference in Ramallah. (AP)

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Abbas: Mideast summit will fail if no prior agreement is reached

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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he wanted the upcoming Middle East conference to result in a framework agreement for Israeli-Palestinian peace and set a timeline for implementation.

"We are concerned that November 15 will come - if this will indeed be the date for this international conference - without arriving at a specific agreement on all the issues, and that this meeting will be described as a failure," Abbas said.

Abbas has been pressing a reluctant Israel to discuss in depth matters at the core of any future agreement on Palestinian statehood - the shape of final borders and the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

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"We need a framework agreement with a timeline for implementation," he said at a news conference with Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief.

"We do not want a meeting that results in merely a statement. We do not want a meeting that will end up a failure for everybody," Abbas said.

A senior Abbas aide said the Palestinian leader and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert failed to bridge their differences on the issue at their last meeting, on August 28.

Abbas said last week the conference proposed by United States President George W. Bush would be a waste of time if Israel continued to seek only a broadbrush "declaration of principles".

Israeli officials have used that phrase to describe what Olmert might offer in answer to calls for rapid, final talks in details on establishing a Palestinian state.

Raising the bar too high, the officials have said, could lead to disappointment and crush renewed efforts to revive peacemaking stalled by seven years of violence.

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1.	Abbas has forgotten who his friends are?	16:39	\|	Natallie Durson	02/09/07

2.	Put up or shut up	16:40	\|	Sam	02/09/07

3.	"Framework agreement for Israeli Palestinian peace" between whom?	16:58	\|	Avihu	02/09/07

4.	Am we missing something????	17:11	\|	Robert	02/09/07

5.	Of course Sam #1	17:15	\|	S	02/09/07

6.	NOT THE GUY	17:16	\|	indrajaya	02/09/07

7.	#6 And Who are you to Tell us who our leader is?	18:00	\|	Wissam	02/09/07

8.	Robert, you`re right about Abbas, and Palestinians are Behind Him	18:04	\|	Wissam	02/09/07

9.	Avihu, You`re Confused, WB/Gaza are Palestine	18:07	\|	Wissam	02/09/07

10.	Prior accord or none, the summit will fail	18:43	\|	Benezra	02/09/07

11.	Fair & doable plan for painless end to the Israeli "occupation":	18:48	\|	Uzi	02/09/07

12.	Mafia Abbas extortions unreasonable , hijack summit	18:49	\|	Joseph E .	02/09/07

13.	Prior Accord Will Fail if No Prior-Prior Accord is Reached	18:54	\|	Ovadiah ben Avraham	02/09/07

14.	The future of the ME	18:56	\|	Barch Hashem	02/09/07

15.	Abbas learned from Arafat`s experience with Barak and Clinton -	18:58	\|	Sensible	02/09/07

16.	Wissam	18:59	\|	Avihu	02/09/07

17.	set timeline and means of implementation will	20:23	\|	Smadar	02/09/07

18.	Mentality of the Islamist-Jihadists	20:31	\|	Brod	02/09/07

19.	This conference will fail because the main player Hamas is not	20:31	\|	lakshmi	02/09/07

20.	No political well	21:23	\|	mak	02/09/07

21.	Lakshmi #19	21:55	\|	Brod	02/09/07

22.	Foggy Bottom Planning Lunch Menus	22:26	\|	Robert	02/09/07

23.	Brod be the Man	22:29	\|	Robert	02/09/07

24.	Remember Oslo?	23:03	\|	Rachel C.	02/09/07

25.	Rachel C #24	00:00	\|	Brod	03/09/07

26.	Abbas, Livni Superior to Bush and Rice	00:09	\|	Arik Silverman	03/09/07

27.	False hope...	00:15	\|	Blogowitz	03/09/07

28.	It`s getting old, stale and moldy	00:34	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	03/09/07

29.	Robert, I remember that psychotic rant just 5 years ago	00:37	\|	Mark Lincoln	03/09/07

30.	Abbas sold out and now they have sold him out	00:44	\|	Mark Lincoln	03/09/07

31.	failure	18:38	\|	cesca	04/09/07

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