Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter(R), who arrived to observe the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections, speeks to the press during a meeting with Israeli President Moshe Katzav in Jerusalem Friday Jan 7, 2005.Israel has begun to pull troops out of West Bank cities to avoid interfering with a January 9 chairman election, Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday.
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