RAMALLAH, April 9, 2008, (WAFA) - President Abbas political advisor Nimr Hammad said Wednesday that the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations did not achieve any progress since they were launched in international summit of Annapolis.

Interviewed by an Arab newspaper, Hammad added that Abbas would inform US President George Bush in their awaited meeting in the White House on April 24 that the negotiations with the Israelis failed in achieving any progress, saying that Abbas is to call on Bush to intervene so as to steer the negotiations' process between the two sides especially that the "Israelis are self-negotiating. Thus there has to be US interference in the negotiations".

Concerning the negotiations' cessions that took place in the last past months between heads of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators Ahmed Qurea and Tzipi Livni and the meeting between Abbas and Israeli premier Ehud olmert, Hammad made it clear that "they were only brain sport as a kind of test".

"We found out that the Israelis are not ready to have things formal on papers. Even if some of them are convinced about some of the issues, they are still not ready to form any agreements", he said.

He as well pointed out that the Palestinian leadership is always keen to brief the US administration about the results of the Palestinian- Israeli meetings saying that Abbas managed to brief the US consul in Jerusalem about what really happened in the meeting saying "nothing has happened.

On its part, the Palestinian leadership calls on the Arab countries to support the Palestinian negotiating stance in light of Israeli intransigence.