AMMAN, November 30, 2011 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday stressed to the Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, that the peace option and negotiations are the only way to achieve the principle of the two-state solution based on 1967 borders, and to resolve all final status issues, including Jerusalem, refugees, borders, settlement and security leading to end of the conflict.

Abbas met Livni, leader of the Israeli party Kadima, Knesset members Tzachi Hanegbi and Roni Bar-On, as well as the head of Kadima council, Haim Ramon, in the Jordanian capital Amman.

Abbas said that the Palestinian move to gain a full Palestinian membership in the United Nations Security Council does not aim to isolate or delegitimize Israel, but to preserve the two-state solution based on 1967 borders.

He stressed that both the Palestinian and Israeli parties must uphold their obligations that came in the first stage of the Road Map, particularly halting settlement activities and accepting the principle of the two-state solution.

The meeting also addressed the Palestinian reconciliation, which Abbas considered of paramount Palestinian interest and a main pillar of the peace process.

He stressed that the national unity government will be formed of independent technocrats, who will abide to his principles, especially in respecting the signed agreements, the two-state solution, adherence to peace and renunciation of violence.

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