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President Abbas: Flexibility in Negotiations Never Means Concession of Our National Principles

SHARM AL-SHEIKH, July 15, 2009 (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas said, today, that “we still have not touched any real response from the Israeli Government, there are even some unsupportable Israeli demands that we cannot accept, or skip the basics and final status issues, essential to end the conflict.”

 

In a speech he pronounced before the Non-Aligned Movement’s 15th summit, held in Sharm El-Sheikh, in which more than 118 countries are participating, the President said that, “we are pro serious negotiations; we know that they will be hard and complicated. We will need your support, yet, flexibility on our side never means concession of our national principles. There will be no solution without Jerusalem, Refugees and all final status issues.”

 

About the Palestinian national dialogue, the President said, “we hope, by the will of God, to reach an agreement that brings back unity to the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and thus, get rid one of Israel’s pretexts to evade their commitments.”

 

Regarding the Non-Alignment Movement, he stated that, “we think our Movement needs developed mechanisms that enable it to contribute to solving these differences, and developing the economic and cultural relations between the member countries of this Movement, founded by our great leaders, Abdul-Nasser, Nehru and Tito, since more than half a century.”

 

The President thanked the Non-Alignment Movement for its support and solidarity with the Palestinian Cause, which, he stated, “we are looking forward to its continuation, until we are able to end the Israeli occupation and establishing our independent state, with Jerusalem as its capital.

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