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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5563280.ece
Obama's First Call Is to Abbas
[Times-UK] Tom Baldwin - President Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office Wednesday. In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement. Obama told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office. Obama also spoke to President Mubarak of Egypt, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, and King Abdullah of Jordan.