Some argue that Mr Abbas's peace talk is a tactical ploy.
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Israel and America then discovered that nobody had the authority to talk peace in Mr Arafat's stead.
President Assad has also reiterated his willingness to talk peace with Israel, though Israel rebuffed the overture, insisting that he should first expel Hamas and its ilk.
He can point to other urgent needs, claiming some success against drugs and at least honest attempts, though many doubt they will succeed, to talk peace with Colombia's guerrillas.
If the allies had looked readier for a ground war earlier this year to back up their threatened air strikes, Mr Milosevic might have been slower to pick a fight and keener to talk peace.
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He has put off talk of peace agreements and is focusing solely on putting the West Bank's economy on track.
Doves, optimists and champions of peace-through-talk felt vindicated.
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The first two days of the event will take place in Hiroshima, where participants will have the opportunity to visit the peace museum and to talk to atomic bomb survivors, and the other days in Etajima, an island about 30 minutes from Hiroshima.
Talk of a peace process was misguided, he said, when "there is no peace and there is no process".
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We had the opportunity obviously to talk about the peace process.
The festival's closing day will feature a talk from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams who gained the honour for her international campaign to ban landmines.
This month's negotiations between government and guerrillas were the first since 1991, prompting talk of a lasting peace.
Judging by the hard talk on both sides, peace is unlikely any time soon.
For the first time since terrorists attacked last year in Mumbai, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan met to talk about how to restart peace talks.
One teacher has what she calls a "peace circle" each week where students can talk about anything that's bothering them.
You talk about how you have this peace that came onto you, even though you were in the midst of tragedy.
Arafat would talk about how much he wanted peace with Israel, and how he was just waiting for Netanyahu to agree to embrace the cause of peace.
Instead, they belittle the risks and talk generally about the enormous desirability of peace.
That's why what we are trying to do now is talk to all the people and make peace with everyone and build up confidence with everyone.
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Among Sri Lankans, it should be said that there has been more talk about the recent budget than about possible peace talks.
Now it seems like years ago but it was only this week that Yasser Arafat came to Downing Street and met with Tony Blair, then the talk was of speeding up the Middle East peace process and even of pushing Israel to accept a Palestinian State.
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Mr Papandreou and his finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, talk up the need to balance fairness and social peace with fiscal austerity.
Most Basque political parties, still wrangling over forming a regional government after last month's elections, talk also of the existence of favourable conditions for peace.
Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials met to talk about American proposals for ending the deadlock in the peace process .
There was indeed talk in Luxembourg of invoking Mr Blair's miraculous peace-making skills on May 2nd and 3rd, when European leaders meet to confirm the participants in the euro.
Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University, said there was little alternative but to talk to the Taliban.
Mr. BOB KAGAN (Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): The nice thing about a campaign is you can always talk in pretty black-and-white terms about what you'd like to do and what you think.
They had an opportunity to both talk about and agree on the need to move forward with that peace process.
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