- Title: SYRIA: Meshaal meets PLO officials.
- Date: 9th November 2009
- Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (NOVEMBER 8, 2009) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL): VARIOUS OF THE MEETING BETWEEN HAMAS LEADER KHALED MESHAAL AND HEAD OF PLO POLITBURO, FAROUQ AL-KADDOUMI MESHAAL AND KADDOUMI DURING THE MEETING MESHAAL TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) KHALED MESHAAL, HAMAS LEADER, SAYING: "This meeting comes as a part of the consultations between the Palestinian leaderships in ord
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- Story Text: Hamas leader Meshaal met with PLO officials in Damascus.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal met on Sunday (November 8, 2009) with Farouq al-Kaddoumi, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Politburo.
Al-Kaddoumi's visit to Syria aims to meet with the Palestinian leaderships living in Damascus in order to discuss the latest developments and the Palestinian fact.
"This meeting comes as a part of the consultations between the Palestinian leaderships in order to discuss the Palestinian situation and crisis and the way to get out of this painful situation. Also to raise the national Palestinian efforts to face the occupation and the alignment of the American administration to the Israeli position on the settlements without any respect as to how Palestinianians and Arabs should benefit," said Meshaal during the meeting.
Abbas announced on Thursday (November 6, 2009) he is not going to stand for the upcoming elections of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Chief Palestinian Saeb Erekat, said earlier that the Palestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements and the United states does not stop it.
Israel has rejected the idea of a de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank, incorporating the Palestinian as citizens, as "demographic timebom" that would make Jews minority. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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