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Report: Abbas to ask Arab League for int'l peace conference

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to call for an international peace conference during talks in Cairo, AFP quoted a Palestinian official as saying on Sunday.
Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in Cairo along with Abbas, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and PA foreign minister Riyad al-Malki told AFP that the delegation would ask the Arab League to back the idea of a conference during a meeting on Sunday.
"One of the proposals we will request from the Arab Follow-Up Committee is for a call to convene an international peace conference on the Palestinian issue," AFP quoted Ahmad as saying.
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