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/ 21 April 2008

Leader says Hamas ‘won’t recognise Israel’

Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but ”it will not recognise Israel”, the Islamist movement’s exiled chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference on Monday. ”We accept a Palestinian state within the June 4 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital … but without recognition of Israel,” he said.

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/ 18 April 2008

Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria

Former United States president Jimmy Carter met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Friday for talks expected to focus on ways to include the Islamist group in efforts to achieve Palestinian-Israeli peace. High-level Hamas members also attended the meeting, at which Carter would also raise with Meshaal the fate of an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas.