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A call for Hamas to re declaration of its past positions came last month from the United States and its partners in the so-called Quartet and Russia, the United Nations and the European Union which has overseen Middle East negotiations since 2002. Where the American administration is issuing warnings, the European Union hopes for a solution that would avert a confrontation with the West. On Thursday, for example, Javier Solana, who is the top foreign policy envoy of the European Union, said in Ramallah, the provisional Palestinian capital that he wished to underline that the European Union will not abandon the Palestinian people.