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PLO: Israel gave no reason to restart talks
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- PLO meetings with Israeli envoys have not been able to restart negotiations, a Palestinian presidential spokesman said Friday, after Israel said it had fulfilled its obligation to the Quartet-sponsored talks.
Israel did not provide anything to build upon, while the issue of borders and security is still pending, Nabil Abu Rdeineh told Ma'an.
PLO officials held five exploratory meetings with Israeli negotiators in the Jordanian capital during January. The diplomatic Quartet had called for the sides to give their positions on the borders and security by Jan. 26.
At the first summit on Jan. 3, the PLO gave Israel a proposal for resolving border and security issues, and Israel promised to respond in future meetings, Jordanian Foreign Minster Nasser Judeh said at the time.
Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said negotiators handed a 21 point proposal to the meetings, which PLO official Nabil Shaath said lacked any detail and was "rather a composition about peace done by a high school student."
In the final meeting before the Quartet deadline, Israeli delegate Yitzhak Molcho on Wednesday gave a verbal presentation on borders and security, which an Israeli official said was to meet the Quartet request.
But a PLO official told Reuters that no maps were presented at the meeting and the presentation "killed the two-state solution, set aside previous agreements and international law."
The idea presented by Molcho "does not include Jerusalem and the Jordan valley, and includes almost all (Israeli) settlements", he said.
"Basically, the Israeli idea of a Palestinian state is made up of a wall and settlements," he said.
The Jordan valley makes up around 30 percent of the West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem is roundly considered as the capital of a future Palestinian state...READ MORE
Israel did not provide anything to build upon, while the issue of borders and security is still pending, Nabil Abu Rdeineh told Ma'an.
PLO officials held five exploratory meetings with Israeli negotiators in the Jordanian capital during January. The diplomatic Quartet had called for the sides to give their positions on the borders and security by Jan. 26.
At the first summit on Jan. 3, the PLO gave Israel a proposal for resolving border and security issues, and Israel promised to respond in future meetings, Jordanian Foreign Minster Nasser Judeh said at the time.
Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said negotiators handed a 21 point proposal to the meetings, which PLO official Nabil Shaath said lacked any detail and was "rather a composition about peace done by a high school student."
In the final meeting before the Quartet deadline, Israeli delegate Yitzhak Molcho on Wednesday gave a verbal presentation on borders and security, which an Israeli official said was to meet the Quartet request.
But a PLO official told Reuters that no maps were presented at the meeting and the presentation "killed the two-state solution, set aside previous agreements and international law."
The idea presented by Molcho "does not include Jerusalem and the Jordan valley, and includes almost all (Israeli) settlements", he said.
"Basically, the Israeli idea of a Palestinian state is made up of a wall and settlements," he said.
The Jordan valley makes up around 30 percent of the West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem is roundly considered as the capital of a future Palestinian state...READ MORE
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