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Article: Erekat: Shift in US focus on Palestine significant.

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May 19, 2009
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Dubai: The new US administration has made an important shift when it talks of the creation of a Palestinian state as being in the national interest of the US, Dr Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's (PLO) head of negotiations, said.

"This recognition is very important since it makes it easier for the administration to persuade the American public that it should happen, but it also makes clear how important President Barack Obama thinks it is to find an end to the conflict," Erekat told Gulf News at this week's World Economic Forum on the Middle East.

"Obama does not have to reinvent the wheel," Erekat said. "So much has been done in the ...

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