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September 22, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/53630.htm

Rice: PA Should Disarm Fatah Militias First

(State Department) In an interview with TIME magazine published Monday, Secretary of State Rice said: "Any functioning democracy has to have one authority and one gun, as Mahmoud Abbas has put it. So I think we will want to work with the international community to address this question. I think it is an extremely important question because I don't, frankly, think Hamas can have it both ways. Now, I think it would be a good start for the Palestinians, by the way, if they would disarm the militias of Fatah. That would be a good start. They have a roadmap obligation to disarm terrorist organizations and militias. But as a starting point, because I understand that there are complications with Hamas and there are questions about how capable they would be of actually insisting on disarmament of Hamas."

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