Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert join together prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday July 13, 2008. Sarkozy met the two leaders ahead of a Union for the Mediterranean summit which will bring together leaders of 43 nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, some of whom have never before sat around a single table. (AP )More than 40 nations home to 800 million people were set Sunday to join in a Union for the Mediterranean, a vast though vague body its boosters hope can nudge this disparate and conflicted swath of the world toward peace and stability.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged nations around the Mediterranean to "learn to love one another rather than to continue to hate each other and wage war."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "We are closer than ever to a possible (peace) agreement today" with the Palestinians .
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