Palestinian Interior Minister to Meet Israeli Defense Minister soon

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Palestinian Interior Minister to Meet Israeli Defense Minister soon

Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razaq Al Yahya announced Saturday that he will meet with Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer within the coming two days.

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Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razaq Al Yahya announced Saturday that he will meet with Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer within the coming two days.

Al Yahya did not elaborate on the exact time for the meeting, but said it would take place before the Palestinian delegation heads for talks in Washington with US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday.

The Ramallah-based Al Ayyam daily reported that the coming days would witness several Israeli-Palestinian meetings, where the Palestinian officials would ask for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank towns.

The daily quoted well-informed Palestinian sources as revealing that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had asked for talks with Al Yahya and two other Palestinian National Authority (PNA) ministers ahead of the visit by the Palestinian delegation to the United States.

If the proposed talks take place, it will be the third meeting between Sharon and PNA officials since he was elected in February last year and sworn in as the prime minister of Israel.

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat originally planned to head the delegation to Washington on Sunday to meet with Powell andother US officials.

However, the meeting was postponed at the request of Palestinians, who said they needed more preparations of files and documents to be discussed with the US officials.

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