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India has the right to build relations with Israel but it should not come at the "expense" of New Delhi's firm support for the Palestinian cause, a close aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said today.
India has the right to build relations with Israel but it should not come at the "expense" of New Delhi's firm support for the Palestinian cause, a close aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said today.
Ahead of Abbas' visit to India next week, Dr Majdi Khaldi, a senior Palestinian official, described India's relations with Palestine as "historic" and "steady" and asserted that the Palestinians want to strengthen their ties with India and seek support for their "struggle".
"India has the right to have relations with Israel and any other country but what we care about is that it should not be at the expense of its relations with Palestine and its principled stand supporting the Palestinian cause that we should have our state within the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital," Khaldi, a senior diplomatic adviser of Abbas, told