He argues that in signing those accords Yasser Arafat put the principles of recognition and a possible two-state solution ahead of the need to stop the process of Israeli colonisation which was shredding one of those two states to ribbons.

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The stop-start process over the past two years has made companies wary, said Mark Hughes, capital markets partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.

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