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00:00...represents the hopes and dreams of the Palestinian people.
00:10As before, we had a very fine meeting with the President.
00:15We discussed a whole series of issues, the present and past and future of the Palestinian
00:22people under his very good leadership.
00:26We hope that in the future we can be of help.
00:29We represent the Elders Group, and Prime Minister Brunton will cover that in just a moment.
00:37We hope that sometimes we will see elections all over the Palestinian area in East Jerusalem
00:44and in Gaza and also in the West Bank.
00:47We believe that holding of elections will be a major beneficial and positive step for
00:54the Palestinian people.
00:55And now I'd like to introduce the Vice-Chairman of the Elders Group, and that's Prime Minister
01:01Brunton from Norway.
01:02One and a half billion people are being held in a cage or prison with all their human rights
01:14because of Fatah decided not to come to Damascus.
01:25We'd like to have one telephone system so we can communicate back and forth with our
01:30friends in the North or South.
01:33We found the same thing true among the leaders of the private sector, almost all of whom
01:41were actively working for peace.
01:45Some of them pointed out that there are still two completely separate law enforcement agencies.
01:50They don't even cooperate with each other or communicate with each other.