JERUSALEM - Israel's foreign minister canceled a trip to Qatar for a U.N. conference because the Palestinian Authority is sending a delegation of Hamas lawmakers as its representatives, a ministry official said Sunday.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's trip would have been the first high-level trip by an Israeli official to the Persian Gulf state in 10 years.
Livni, who had tentatively been scheduled to leave Sunday, decided against the trip when she learned that Hamas lawmakers were to participate in the conference, said ministry spokesman Mark Regev.
"Israel's policy is that until the Hamas accepts (U.N. Secretary-General) Kofi Annan's three benchmarks - …
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