Abbas says to issue decree for Palestinian vote

2009/10/20 10:15:53 @Reuters: International News

CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he would issue a decree on Sunday to hold elections by January 24, a move that could raise pressure on Hamas to sign an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=RefnTGe5cJk:XV02wyAnDDY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=RefnTGe5cJk:XV02wyAnDDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=RefnTGe5cJk:XV02wyAnDDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=RefnTGe5cJk:XV02wyAnDDY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=RefnTGe5cJk:XV02wyAnDDY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/RefnTGe5cJk" height="1" width="1"/
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