Venezuela Officially Invites Hamas, PA Unity Government to Visit Caracas

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Venezuela officially invites Hamas, PA unity government to visit Caracas
[ 07/03/2007 - 04:19 PM ]

TEHRAN, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Wednesday received an official
invitation to visit Caracas during a meeting in Tehran between
visiting Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro and a Hamas
delegation.

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy political bureau chairman of Hamas,
told PIC that the Hamas delegation led by its political bureau
chairman Khaled Mishaal conferred with the Venezuelan foreign minister
on overall Palestinian conditions in the light of the Israeli
aggressions and the western siege.

He said that the delegates also reviewed the American policy in the
Middle East and Latin America.

Maduro affirmed his country's backing to and solidarity with the
Palestinian people in face of the Israeli aggressions and oppression
as a result of American policies, Abu Marzouk noted.

He also quoted the Venezuelan chief diplomat as affirming the Latin
American peoples' sympathy with the Palestinian people in face of the
ceaseless Israeli aggressions and oppressive siege.

Maduro also expressed the support of the Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavez and his people for the Palestinian people and the Makkah
agreement. He stressed his country's rejection of the American
imperialist policy in the Middle East, according to Abu Mazrouk.

He also quoted Maduro as expressing hope to form a front of Latin
American peoples and their governments in support of the Palestinian
people as a first step towards breaking the siege and extending
financial assistance to the Palestinian people and its unity
government.

Abu Marzouk said that Maduro addressed an official invitation to Hamas
leadership to visit Caracas and asked the unity government to open
direct links with Venezuela and to open a Palestinian embassy in
Caracas.

Meanwhile, a source close to the Hamas Movement said that Caracas
might well be one of the countries that Hamas leadership would visit
within its current tour of a number of countries a bid to rally
support for the Palestinian unity government.
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Yoshie
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