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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tia Goldenberg

With Putin, Palestinian leader rules out US role as mediator

Sputnik

The Palestinian president on Thursday used an audience with Vladimir Putin to denounce the United States, telling the Russian leader that he has no faith in Washington as a Mideast peace broker.

Abbas spoke with Putin at a regional summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. His comments about the U.S., traditionally the main broker between Israel and the Palestinians, came at a time when the U.S. and Russia are at loggerheads over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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