British diplomat meets Palestinian PM over kidnapped BBC man
A senior British diplomat and BBC officials met Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas today to push for the release of a BBC journalist kidnapped three weeks ago.
The meeting between Haniyeh and British Consul General Richard Makepeace was the first face-to-face encounter between a diplomat from an EU country and a Hamas official of the Palestinians’ recently-formed national unity government.
