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Remarks by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to the Council on Foreign Relations - Council on Foreign ... (4180 words) |
 | You sir, as prime minister, are in many ways the symbol of the political hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people, and for the promise of political change, that one day there will be not simply a state of Palestine, but it will be a democratic state of Palestine. |
 | PRIME MINISTER ABBAS: We deal with the prime minister of Israel as a prime minister who represents the Israeli people, and the Israeli people have elected him and selected him to be the prime minister. |
 | Prime Minister, I'd like to ask you a question that I put a few days ago in Jerusalem in separate conversations with Naomi Kazan and Hanan Ashrawi, both rather independent-minded women who are critics of their own political establishments. |