RAMALLAH, West Bank - International heavyweights added their heft Sunday to efforts to prod Israel and the Palestinians to start talking peace again, but pointedly planned to shun members of the new Palestinian coalition government affiliated with the Islamic militant group Hamas.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, arriving for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said his trip, including a tour of a Palestinian refugee camp earlier Sunday, strengthened his resolve to work for Mideast peace. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to meet later Sunday with Abbas, a moderate who heads the Fatah Party.
Ban, on his first trip to the Palestinian territories, …
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