"Occupied Jerusalem - PA chief Mahmoud Abbas is to declare a state of emergency in the PA-run lands on his return from New York where he is attending the UN general assembly's session and where he is expected to meet US president George W. Bush on Wednesday, official Arab sources affirmed Tuesday.
The sources, which opted to remain anonymous, said that Abbas held consultations with a number of Arab leaders, who had rejected re-appointing PA premier Ismail Haneyya to lead the new national unity government, over the past few weeks.
The sources noted that those Arab leaders supported Abbas' step, and pointed out that the escalating violence in the PA lands constituted a suitable atmosphere to justify Abbas' step.
They noted that the EU promised to release all PA money detained by Israel over the past six months and to grant him additional aid to ward off any possible adverse reaction on the part of the Palestinian masses toward such a step.
Abbas met at dawn Tuesday with the Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, at the UN headquarters for the first time in five months. He emerged after the meeting to describe it as "extremely positive"."
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