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Tuesday's summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been postponed, after the two sides failed to agree on important issues during preparatory meetings
Headline 101005
Tuesday's summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been postponed, after the two sides failed to agree on important issues during preparatory meetings.
Palestinian negotiators demanded that Israel supply the Palestinian Authority with weapons and hand over security control in all Palestinian cities.
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz rejected the two demands saying, there will be no handovers in the near future and that the Palestinian Authority must act against resistance groups.
The Bush administration originally requested the summit as a precursor to president Abbas' October 22nd visit to Washington.
Abbas has said that he is not interested in talks with Sharon for Public Relations purposes, but rather for concrete results to push peace talks forward.
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