RAMALLAH, August 24, 2017 (WAFA) – As President Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet later Thursday at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah with the US peace team, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said the Palestinians are awaiting answers to questions they had raised regarding resumption of Palestinian-Israeli talks.

Malki told the official Voice of Palestine radio that the US delegation headed by Jared Kushner, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, Jason Greenblatt, the chief negotiator, and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, are expected to bring with them answers to the questions posed by the Palestinian leadership, especially regarding the position of the US towards the two-state solution and the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.

He said the responses will make it clear to the Palestinians “if there is a historic opportunity that would allow continuation of a peace process that is going to lead to an end to the Israeli occupation or if all these visits are just a waste of time.”

The US delegation is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before travelling to Ramallah to meet with Abbas and other Palestinian officials.

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