(CNN) Cooperation between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority in advance of the Palestinian election has been good so far, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday at an international conference in Egypt. "They are both committed to the road map, and the first step ahead of us is to have good, full, free, solid elections on the ninth of January for a new president of the Palestinian Authority." Powell said that both sides had agreed that the best way for Palestinian residents of eastern Jerusalem to take part is to use the voting by mail model from the 1996 elections.
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