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HH Partiarch Alexi II to Meet Abbas

Moscow, April 16, Interfax - Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia will meet with President of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas at his residence in Moscow St. Daniel Monastery on Friday, a statement posted on the Moscow Patriarchate website says.Abbas is also the leader of Fatah. In March 2006, Alexy II met with representatives of Hamas, which is a rival of Fatah, after it won parliamentary elections.Alexy II then called on the PA authorities to engage in a peaceful dialogue with Israel and pointed out that the Russian Orthodox Church had always backed the idea of a Palestinian state in the Middle East.

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