PLO official, Saeb Erekat, meeting with German diplomats at his office. (WAFA Images) 

JERICHO, Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (WAFA) – Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), today urged the European Union to intervene to prevent Israel from building a settlement in E1 area, east of occupied Jerusalem, as announced yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Erekat handed the European Union Representative to Palestine, Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff, during a meeting at his office a letter to the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, calling on him to urgently intervene to prevent the Israeli occupation government from implementing its settlement and annexation plans, especially the colonial settlement project known as E1.

He warned that if the E1 project is implemented, it will destroy any future opportunity for peace based on the principle of two states on the 1967 borders.

Erekat also received at his office a delegation from the European Parliament representing Spain, Sweden, Denmark, France and Greece, and another delegation that included 22 German diplomats, in separate meetings.

He demanded in his talk with his guests that the international community must do everything necessary to preserve the principle of two states on the 1967 borders by holding an international conference with full powers on the basis of United Nations resolutions and international law.

M.K.