But he questioned how the government's decision would help resume talks between the two camps.
He has said he intends to resume talks and co-operation to promote "economic peace".
It was not immediately clear if Monday's announcement would prompt Abbas to resume talks.
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The North's official media continue to insist that the country wants to resume talks with America.
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Chinese analyst says Beijing held back so as to give Pyongyang room to climb down and resume talks.
Mr Netanyahu and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, both say they are ready to resume talks without preconditions.
As The Economist went to press, airline and union bosses were due to resume talks to resolve future problems.
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India is to back off from its threat of war and, eventually, to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir.
Ben-Eliezer urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume talks with the Palestinians.
Three days later, Mr Denktash said he is ready to resume talks with the Greek Cypriots and called on them to show more flexibility.
At the diplomatic level, Iran is due to resume talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan on 26 February after a gap of eight months.
Mr Dromey said British Airways management had "completely failed to engage" with the union, which said it was ready to resume talks at any time.
All the same, Palestinians have reason to want to resume talks.
The statement said it would also resume talks with the de Chastelain decommissioning body when it was satisfied the peace process would be advanced by these discussions.
In New York, the so-called "six plus two" nations -- those neighboring Afghanistan along with the United States and Russia -- were slated to resume talks on a post-Taliban government.
The disclosure of the new plant comes one day after world leaders stressed the need for greater co-operation against nuclear proliferation and shortly before Iran is due to resume talks with international powers on the issue.
Outsiders, including the Americans, were long inclined to concur with Israeli doves in doubting Mr Sharon's desire or intention to reach the ceasefire and thus trigger the settlement freeze, let alone resume talks on a permanent agreement.
The BBC's Mame Less Camara, in Dakar, says that the ferry probably resumed service before it had undergone sufficient checks because the Senegalese Government wanted to show goodwill towards the separatist movement of Casamance, which whom it was supposed to resume talks.
The CHC confirmed it had received a letter from Ms Griffiths, who has now been replaced by Mark Drakeford as health minister, asking them to resume talks, clarify which proposals it did not support and come up with alternative proposals by 5 April.
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The IAEA's chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, expressed optimism that the signs of progress from the Korean talks might even nudge Iran and its interlocutors (Germany, Britain and France) to resume their talks, which were broken off last month when Iran resumed some of its controversial nuclear fuel-making activities.
Union negotiators hope to resume contract talks soon on behalf of the 7, 400 technical workers, he said.
The killings come as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are due to resume peace talks in Taba, Egypt.
South Korea's president recently offered to build roads and ports in the North and urged the government in Pyongyang to resume official talks.
Before the two met, Mr Netanyahu said the US and Israel were "making headway" and said he hoped the two sides would "shortly be able to resume normal talks".
Colombian government-ELN to resume peace talks in Caracas.
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If and when talks resume, the Palestinians want to pick up where they left off.
The two political parties close to them may not turn up when the talks resume.
Talks resume Saturday in Istanbul with hopes of easing tensions heightened by Iran's nuclear progress.
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