Mr Netanyahu froze the transfers last year after the Palestinians gained non-member observer state status at the UN.

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The General Assembly voted by 138-9 to recognise the Palestinians as a non-member observer state, with 41 states abstaining.

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Mr Meshaal this year strongly supported Mr Abbas's move in upgrading Palestinian status at the United Nations to that of a non-member "observer state".

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Turkey - which attended the meeting as an observer, since it is not an Arab state - said it would act in accordance with the Arab League sanctions.

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Syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the Arab League observer mission by a month, Syria's state-run news agency Sana reports.

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Mr. Christie, a Republican and former federal prosecutor, faces re-election in the Garden State in 2013 and is on every political observer's list of possible candidates for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.

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