Press statement following talks with head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.
Both parties confirmed their adherence to efforts to regulate the Arab-Israeli conflict on the basis of statues of the UN Security Council and other international resolutions, including the “road map”
At the end of the bilateral talks, the two heads of state made a press statement.
Vladimir Putin said that elections in Iraq were an historic event for the Iraqi people, a step on the path of democratisation, and the first time in many years when the opinion of the Iraqi people had been taken into account.
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