Mideast peace deal this year will 'require a miracle': Qorei

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Striking a full peace agreement with Israel by the end of the year will "require a miracle,"

top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei said in Ramallah on Wednesday.

"No concrete progress has been made to date," Qorei said at a meeting of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party leadership.

"We have formed a number of committees to study every issue individually, but arriving at a final agreement this year will require a miracle," he said.

The former prime minister also called on the Islamist Hamas movement to end its "coup" in the Gaza Strip and heal the year-old split between the two main Palestinian factions.

"The continuing political division is not in anyone's interest and is not in the interest of the...

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