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March 9, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1069308.html

U.S. Warns It Won't Recognize PA Unity Government without PM Fayyad

[Ha'aretz] Akiva Eldar and Avi Issacharoff - The U.S. will only recognize a future Palestinian unity government if Salem Fayyad is reappointed prime minister, according to a message relayed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to European and Arab leaders at last week's donor meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh. Fayyad announced his resignation over the weekend, but Palestinian sources believe that the American threat, which is likely to be backed by the EU and Egypt, will lead to Hamas changing its opposition to Fayyad, enabling him to rescind his resignation. Support for the U.S.-educated Fayyad, a former senior staffer at the World Bank, translated into massive amounts of foreign aid for the Palestinians.

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