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Carter urges Palestinians to reunite

2009-06-16 (Tuesday), People's Daily Online
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called on the Palestinians to reunite to pave the way for the establishment of their independent statehood.

Carter made the call from Gaza city when he toured neighborhoods that have sustained damage and destruction during Israel's 22-day offensive against the Hamas-run enclave in January.

"The way of rebuilding, ending the suffering and (achieving) peace goes through the Palestinian unity," Carter told reporters shortly after he crossed into Gaza on his first visit to the Hamas-controlled territory.

He said he was sad hearing that "the Palestinian brothers" fight and arrest each others in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, referring to a bitter power-struggle between Hamas and PalestinianPresident Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.

Carter arrived in the Hamas-controlled Gaza on Tuesday morning on a peace mission, carrying a proposal for Hamas to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a letter from the parents of Gilad Shalit to their captive son who was kidnapped by Hamas in 2006.

Carter, who is the highest former diplomat to visit Gaza after the war, is scheduled to meet with Hamas' lawmakers and officials, including the deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya.

Prior to his meeting with Hamas, Carter will visit a Palestinian hospital and meet officials from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

In 2007, Hamas, which won the parliamentary elections a year earlier, routed security forces of president Mahmoud Abbas and ousted his Fatah party in a deadly fighting.

The United States and most of the European countries bar official talks with Hamas unless the latter recognizes Israel and abides by interim peace deals.

Source: Xinhua



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