Putin chyba sie rozplacze!!!
- From: "Adam R. Tomaszewski" <artomaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:46:01 GMT
Israel to rethink ties with Russia as Hamas heads for
Moscow
By Aluf Benn and Arnon Regular
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will convene a special
meeting today on Israel's bilateral relations with Russia.
The discussion comes in the wake of Russian President
Vladimir Putin's invitation to Hamas to visit Moscow that was extended
earlier this month to senior officials, as well as Russia's compromise
proposal regarding the international crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear
program
A Hamas delegation led by the head of the
movement's political bureau, Khaled Meshal, will travel to the Russian
capital on Friday to meet with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other
ministry officials. The Hamas delegation will not be meeting with Putin.
Initially, Hamas refused to send a delegation
headed by Meshal if Putin wasn't going to meet with it, but the Islamic
organization eventually agreed to the Russians' terms.
Putin's invitation to the senior Hamas
officials was yet another expression of the independent stance Russia has
adopted recently vis-a-vis the Middle East, and it aroused much criticism in
Jerusalem.
Participating in today's talk with Olmert will
be Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and senior
intelligence community and Foreign Ministry officials.
The head of the National Security Council,
Giora Eiland, who maintains an ongoing dialogue with his counterparts in
Moscow, will brief the participants on the Israel-Russia relations.
Political sources in Jerusalem said that
today's discussion had been scheduled a long time ago, and was a regular
annual event. Nevertheless, they added, it now has added significance in
light of Russia's increased involvement in the region.
Dialogue with no preconditions
Meanwhile, Hamas' political chief Meshal said
yesterday that the movement was willing to hold talks with Western
countries, including the United States and European states, but was not
prepared to accept any preconditions for such a dialogue.
"Aside from with the Zionist enemy, Hamas is
ready for a dialogue with any international party, including the United
States and Europe, without any preconditions," Meshal said in an interview
with the London-based Al-Hayat Arabic daily.
"We will carry the principles and expectations
of our people to such a dialogue, and we will defend them with our lives in
keeping with the popular mandate we received," Meshal added.
The Hamas official also said that the terms
the West had imposed on Hamas - the abandonment of the armed struggle, the
recognition of Israel, and the upholding of existing agreements - were
"unjust conditions that other Palestinian elements had accepted and failed
to get anything in return. There was no change to the Israeli position or
the position of the international community as a result of the acceptance of
these conditions in the past," he said.
Meshal added that Hamas would be compensated
for the loss of the West's support by assistance from official Arab sources
and "popular elements." Iran would be the principal contributor to this
compensation, he said.
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