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After Talks with Rice, Abbas Says He'll Resume Negotiations


[New York Times] Helene Cooper and Isabel Kershner - After coming under heavy pressure from the U.S., Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he intended to resume negotiations with Israel following talks with Secretary of State Rice. Abbas later said he would return to peace talks only when Israel reached a truce with Hamas. That prompted Rice to telephone Abbas, who then released a statement that the peace process was a "strategic choice and we have the intention of resuming."
2008-03-06 01:00:00
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