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{"Image ImageDescription": "POLITICS / MIDDLE EAST: Brown meets Abbas: Press conference; Mahmoud Abbas (Palestinian President) press conference SOT (translated)\n- Thank you very much Mr Prime Minister to receive us today after a very important and successful meeting in Paris. Coming after the Paris meeting is very important to London here because of your position in terms of supporting the peace process.\nI would like to congratulate you and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.\nI would like also to thank you for the generous support that you have been giving to the Palestinian people and Authority. We would like to also extend our acknowledgment and thanks for your great support to the Palestinian issue and to the peace process, and this basically reflects exactly your commitment to the peace process and to stability in the region. \nWe know that the Annapolis meeting and the Paris Conference are both selling basically the peace process. We are emphasising, and we are sure, that we will reach an agreement hopefully in the year 2008. We believe that if we have to push for the peace process and for negotiations, serious negotiations, there should be all kinds of circumventing of any kind of impediments to the peace process.\nWe believe that the settlements and settlement activities are major impediments towards the progress of the peace process. We basically denounce the military Israeli insurgence to Gaza, by the same token also we condemn the launching of rockets from Gaza to Israel because all these are major impediments to the peace process and to security. \nWe are pleased from your position as your government in supporting the peace process, whether economically, politically and in every aspect, we believe that you play a major and pivotal role in the region and your personal involvement Prime Minister is a source of power for us and we would like to continue working closely with you.\nWe thank you again for receiving us here in London.", "Image Copyright": "POOL"}