2022: A year has passed since the last meeting in Kazakhstan. Mahmoud Abbas (tv) is due to visit Moscow again, reports the RBC news agency. The image was disseminated by state-run Russian media. Photo: Yevgeny Biyatov / AP / NTB
The Kremlin has not yet confirmed the plans.
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The state news agency of Russia RBC is among the media covering the case.
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) The Palestinian National Authority (PA) is a partially autonomous governing authority in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. , is said to have expressed a desire to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The news agency quotes Palestine’s ambassador to Russia, Abdel Hafiz Nofal:
– We are waiting for an official statement from the Kremlin about when the visit will take place. An agreement has been made for Abbas to visit Moscow, he adds RBC.
The meeting must be planned to take place while the attacks are ongoing in Israel and Gaza. Russia has previously condemned the violence on both sides, but also points the finger at the West.
Putin and Abbas last met a year ago, then in Kazakhstan.
SMIL: Here, the president of Palestine and Russia is pictured during a meeting in Kazakhstan in October 2022. The picture was disseminated by state-run Russian media. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev / AP / NTB
– We know that Russia stands for freedom and international law, 87-year-old Abbas said at the time, according to the report Al Jazeera.
The Russian president has close ties with several political leaders in the Middle Eastincluding Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.
Putin also has close relations with Iran – which in turn has ties to HamasHamasHamas is a political, religious, social and military resistance movement that fights for an independent Palestinian and Islamic state. The organization is labeled a terrorist by several countries. and Hezbollah Hezbollah An Islamist party, social movement and military organization in Lebanon with roots in Iran..
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However, the Abbas-led PA and Hamas are two fundamentally different organizations.
The two groups are in bitter conflict with each other. Their relationship is characterized by a year-long power struggle over Palestinian territories.
While the PA governs the West Bank, the West Bank is a 6,000 square kilometer area west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, with approximately three million Palestinian inhabitants. The West Bank forms the core of what is intended to be a future Palestinian state. It is Hamas that has control over GazaGazaA 40 kilometer long area of a total of 360 square kilometers. Gaza has around two million Palestinian inhabitants, most of whom are registered as refugees by the UN. Gaza has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007 and has been called “the world’s largest prison”. However, it is the PA that represents the Palestinians in international forums such as the UN. The PA is led by the PLOPLOD, or “Palestinian Liberation Organization” (PLO) in English . The PLO was established in 1964 and is an umbrella organization for the Palestinian resistance movement. and was established in 1994 as a result of the Oslo agreement. Unlike Hamas, the PLO is essentially a secular organization.
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Published: 10.10.23 at 02:37
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