Palestinian leader MahmoudAbbas visited Russia.His visits to the United States and Russia over, Palestinian leaderMahmoud Abbas will complete his world tour in Egypt, today.
"Theamount of problems we are facing does not go down but we must continue," President Dmitry Medvedev told Abbas in Moscow."Complicated situation" in the region (Middle East) was also discussed in the talks with Premier Vladimir Putin late at night, yesterday. Russia transacted $20 million to the Palestinian Autonomy in twoinstallments in two years. The monies were spent on health care and education. What information is available indicates that the Palestinians will receive two helicopters from Russia in 2009. Moscow also intended to give the Palestinians some armored vehicles but theIsraelis hit the roof claiming that weapons mounted on the vehicles might end up in terrorists' hands instead of being used against them.
Tourism and investments were discussed at the talks with RussianForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov, yesterday. Meanwhile, investing in the region in question at this point certainly takes courage. Israeli-Palestinian negotiations failed to result in the coveted peace accords and agreement to establish the state of Palestine. HAMAS retains control over part of the autonomy.
"The Russian leadership views Abbas as the leader of the Palestinian people," Lavrov said. Dissatisfied with HAMAS nowadays, the Russian Foreign Ministry backed its criticism by the visitor. As for Abbas, he made numerous references to the mistakes HAMAS was making. To be more exact, Abbas said that it was wrong for HAMAS to refuse to attend Palestinian unity talks and to "manipulate religion". As for the faith, Abbas elaborated on this subject in the course of his unexpected trip to Chechnya. The Palestinian leader came to Grozny on the night preceding his arrival in Moscow. Abbas met with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and visited the grave of Akhmad Kadyrov assassinated on May 9, 2004.
"Geography of your trips is getting increasingly more extensive. You visited the Chechen Republic which we consider nice and useful," Abbas heard from Medvedev, yesterday.
Source: Vremya Novostei, No 238, December 23, 2008, p. 5
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