{"id":59639,"date":"2020-01-24T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59639"},"modified":"2020-01-24T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:48:32","slug":"palestinian-russian-presidents-meet-on-israeli-palestinian-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59639","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian, Russian presidents meet on Israeli-Palestinian situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-01\/24\/138730183_15798222439391n.jpg\" alt=\"MIDEAST-BETHLEHEM-PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT-RUSSIA-PRESIDENT-MEETING\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Palestinian Pres Mahmoud Abbas and Russian Pres Vladimir Putin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Jan 24 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, briefing him on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two leaders discussed the &#8220;Deal of the Century&#8221; proposed by the United States, Israel&#8217;s current confiscation of Palestinian land, and Palestine&#8217;s efforts to hold its legislative and presidential elections, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbas welcomed Putin&#8217;s visit to Palestine, describing the Russian president as his &#8220;personal friend and the friend of the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I welcome my dear friend, President Vladimir Putin &#8230; who never misses an opportunity to talk about or support the Palestinian cause, and this is what we are accustomed to,&#8221; said Abbas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, the Russian president praised the historical relations between the two sides, expressing his readiness to cooperate with and support Palestine in all fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Putin&#8217;s third visit to Palestine. His first visit was in 2005 and the second was in 2012. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Pres Mahmoud Abbas and Russian Pres Vladimir Putin BETHLEHEM, Jan 24 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, briefing him on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian situation. The two leaders discussed the &#8220;Deal of the Century&#8221; proposed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}