JERICHO, Friday, June 28, 2019 (WAFA) – Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, condemned today a statement by Donald Trump’s Middle East peace envoy, Jason Greenblatt, in which he said he prefers to call Israeli settlements "neighborhoods and cities".

During a meeting with a delegation of U.S. academics, clerks and representatives of civil society, Erekat said Greenblatt‘s statement was an incitement against all those who attended the recent Manama workshop for Middle East peace.

He called on all parties who attended the Manama workshop to adopt a common position to affirm their commitment to international law and the principle of the two states on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as capital of Palestine, and to a just solution to the refugees issue.

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