Abbas urges African Union to back French peace push on Mideast conflict
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged members of the continental African Union to back a French-led initiative to hold an international summit on relaunching negotiations on the decades-long Middle East conflict.
According to Palestinian news agency Ma’an, Abbas told the 54-member state body during its 27th-annual summit in Kigali, Rwanada that its international and regional influence makes it an important player in promoting peace.
“Our hands are extended for peace with our neighbors, to be achieved through legal and peaceful means based on international resolutions,” Ma’an quoted Abbas as saying, in apparent reference to UN resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian