Annan Pledges Support For AbbasUN chief Kofi Annan assured Mahmud Abbas that the world would work to create a Palestinian state, one day before the Palestinian leader was to hold crunch ceasefire talks in Cairo. Annan is paying his first visit to the region in four years, a month after Israel and the Palestinian Authority declared an end to more than four years of violence at a landmark Middle East conference in Egypt.
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