Abbas: No negotiations with Netanyahu government without acceptance of the two-state goal

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Abbas to tell Obama: No negotiations without two-state goal

Date: 03 / 05 / 2009 Time: 21:41
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

Acting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will tell US President Barack Obama that renewed peace negotiations with the Israeli occupation government are conditioned on its acceptance of the two-state model.

“We will go to the Washington on May 28 to talk with the US administration about our conditions to resume peace negotiations with Israel in the future," Abbas said after meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday, according to AFP.

"Our conditions and demands are based on the two-state solution and Israel's halt of settlement building as well as house demolitions. These are our demands and the demands of the Americans themselves to resume the talks," he said, according to AFP.

Abbas also said that King Abdullah raised “important issues” and suggestions for Abbas’ meeting with Obama.

Obama invited the leaders of Palestine, Israel, and Egypt to the US over the coming month in a bid to resume formal peace talks.

Abbas also said that the international community is responsible for ending the blockade of the Gaza Strip and ensuring delivery of humanitarian aid and supplies and the initiation of reconstruction.

King Abdullah said the international community must take “real and practical actions” to bring about a resumption of the peace process.

Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and the Palestinian ambassador to Jordan Atallah Khairy also attended Sunday’s meeting. From the Jordanian side Chief of the Royal Court Nasser Al-Lawzi, aide Ayman Al-Safadi and Foreign Minister Nasser Joudah.

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