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Abbas backs French proposal for int'l force to boost PA security

By News Agencies

Tags: settlements, peace process

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he supported a French proposal to deploy an international force to help shore up Palestinian security forces.

"We welcome this idea," Abbas told reporters at a news conference in Paris. "We are working for this to become the international position in the near future."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy floated the idea of an international force during a donors' conference in Paris Monday at which the Palestinians were pledged $7.4 billion in aid over the next three years.

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He said such a deployment should take place at the right time when the conditions are in place.

Israelis have been cool to the idea of an international force, and it is unlikely that the plan could get off the ground without Israeli approval.

Also Tuesday, Abbas said new Israeli settlement activity was posing an obstacle to revived Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Plans for new Israeli settlement building this month have drawn rare criticism from the United States, as well as the European Union, and raised fears that it could undermine Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts launched in the U.S. town of Annapolis last month.

"I think the obstacle that hampers negotiations with the Israelis particularly concerns the construction of settlements. And we have said clearly that Israel must stop the construction and the expansion of settlements," Abbas told a news conference.

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