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JERUSALEM, DEC. 18. Israel's Opposition Labour party is likely to join the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's coalition next week, a move that could promote a Gaza pullout plan and also avoid early elections, his spokesman has said. The entry into the Government of the left-wing Labour Party, led by Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, could also help restart stalled talks with the Palestinians after they vote on January 9 for a successor to late President, Yasser Arafat. ``They have reached an agreement. They will meet to summarise it,'' said Sharon's spokesman, Assaf Shariv, adding that the deal was likely to be signed on Sunday. Mr. Peres said last week that Labour should join the Government ``unconditionally'' to speed up a plan to ``disengage'' from conflict with the Palestinians by evacuating all 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four of 120 in the West Bank in 2005. ``Let's close (the deal) and go to a unity government,'' Channel 2 television reported him as telling Mr. Sharon on Friday. Labour officials were unavailable for comment. — AP
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