Two days after meeting with Israel's deputy-prime minister Avigdor Lieberman, EU President Herman van Rompuy on Wednesday meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinean Authority, at the EU's Council building in Brussels. Abbas also met with EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton, and with Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament. Ashton said she will visit Palestine in March.
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