JERICHO, December 6, 2011 (WAFA) – PLO Executive Committee member Saeb Erekat discussed with US Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman a number of issues, such as the peace process and efforts to resume negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis.
Erekat said, during his meeting with Feltman, that resuming negotiations requires the Israeli government to freeze its settlement activities and accept the two-state solution within 1967 borders, noting that these are not Palestinian conditions but Israeli obligations since the first stage of the Road Map.
He called on the US administration to help release Palestinian prisoners who were arrested before signing the Oslo accords in September 1993.
Erekat said that Israel must be questioned for continuing its settlement activities and blockade on the Gaza Strip.
He said the PLO is determined to gain Palestine's membership of the United Nations as an independent state within 1967 borders, and with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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