Middle East experts were surprised at the inclusion of Mr Peres in the award.
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Well, thank you, President Peres, for your very generous words and your warm welcome.
Averbukh received a congratulatory call from Israel's foreign minister Shimon Peres after his victory.
If she cannot form a government, Israel's president, Shimon Peres, could ask someone else to try.
CNN's request to have a camera present at the Peres-Arafat meeting Saturday was declined.
Peres said he thought it would happen, but not in such a brief period.
In a separate news conference, Peres downplayed prospects for the pending meeting with Arafat.
And it has the support of Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, former Labour and Likud leaders.
If the attempt fails, Mr Peres can ask another leader to assume the task.
Why didn't they make such an offer when Messrs Rabin or Peres were in office?
President SHIMON PERES (Israel): So I'll go back to the almost and speculations and so on.
And separately, could you tell us a little a bit about your meeting with Mr. Peres?
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Mr Peres, too, it seemed, would find a way to live with the new language.
But it wasn't an Israeli "peacenik" like Shimon Peres who withdrew Jewish settlers from occupied land.
Peres's arguably treasonous behavior was not the only scandal Schiffer exposed in his article.
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Mr Peres said he trusted the US in its policy of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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Mr Peres dismissed as "nonsense" speculation that Israel was planning to attack Iran over its nuclear programme.
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Mr Peres and Mr Netanyahu have held a series of private meetings over the past two weeks.
Peres also tried to convince the Reagan administration to disassociate with Shamir and deal only with him.
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His likeliest successor is Shimon Peres, who sits uncomfortably as a junior minister in Mr Barak's government.
Mr Barak and President Shimon Peres offered apologies for the killings, but Egypt said these were insufficient.
From the perspective of Israeli democracy - equally scandalous was Schiffer's admitted collusion with Peres's subversive operations.
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Hagel also was meeting Monday with Israeli President Shimon Peres, and on Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also urged him to visit the Middle East.
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On Tuesday, the President will welcome Israeli President Shimon Peres to the White House for a working lunch.
Verhofstadt had said he would discuss the security measures with Peres and possibly meet Arafat again, Reuters reported.
Musician Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn, and Israeli President Shimon Peres were among the Medal of Freedom recipients.
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