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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Palestinians called on Israel Wednesday to seize the opportunity to negotiate peace without preconditions, but Israel refused and accused the Palestinian government of waging a terror campaign.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. observer, told the U.N. Security Council that the formation of a Palestinian government of national unity and the relaunch of the Arab Peace Initiative adopted at an Arab summit in 2002 offered a chance to move forward and revive the peace process.
This "historic opportunity ... should not be lost like so many before it," he said. "On the Palestinian side, we are willing and ready, and President (Mahmoud) Abbas, with support and a mandate from all Palestinian political groups, is prepared to negotiate unconditionally final status issues."
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