A one-year-old diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government has been eased after a Norwegian diplomat met the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza.
Western powers imposed an economic and diplomatic blockade in March 2006 in a bid to pressure the ruling Hamas group to recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals.
But Norway, which is not a member of the European Union, restored full relations with the Palestinian Authority on Monday after Ismail Haniya’s Hamas movement and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction formed a unity government on Saturday.
Raymond Johansen, Norway’s deputy foreign minister, said: “We hope that all the European countries, and even other countries, will … support this unity government.
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