PA rejects direct talks with Israel

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The Palestinian Authority reiterated Sunday its opposition to holding direct peace talks with Israel and pointed out that the Quartet members – the US, EU, UN and Russia – had called for separate negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

The PA’s announcement came in response to remarks by US State Department spokesman Mark Toner, who said last Friday that Israel and the Palestinians must start direct talks before there can be any negotiation on borders and security.

The PLO official said that the Palestinians would agree to face-to-face talks only when Israel halts all settlement construction and accepts the pre-1967 lines as the borders of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.

Erekat accused the Israeli government of seeking to divert attention from its refusal to present the Quartet with its stance on security and borders. “The Israeli government prefers the formula of negotiating for the sake of negotiations,” he charged.

Read more at http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=248116

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