RAMALLAH, August 20, 2010 (WAFA)- The PLO Executive Committee accepted Friday night to re-launch the direct negotiations to solve all the final status issues  as well US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invitation to attend the meeting in Washington at the beginning of September.

After a meeting in Ramallah headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, the Executive Committee said that the acceptance is based on the Middle East Quartet statement that called for re-launching the direct talks.

The Quartet reaffirmed its full commitment to its previous statements, including in Trieste on  June 26, 2009, in New York on September 24, 2009, and its statement in Moscow on March 19, 2010, which provides that direct, bilateral negotiations that resolve all final status issues should 'lead to a settlement, negotiated between the parties, that ends the occupation which began in 1967 and results in the emergence of an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors.”

The PLO said that if Israel did not halt all settlement activities, it consequently threatens the continuity of direct Negotiations