Mahmoud Abbas is visiting Paris, Le Figaro reported. He met President Chirac in order to rally French support for the Palestinian cause. It is his first meeting with the French president since his election last January. Abbas also is expected to discuss the participation of several French companies in the construction of a tramway serving eastern Jerusalem.
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