Monday, November 02, 2009

Abbas to Clinton: No peace talks without settlement freeze

The Sunday Morning Herald, November 1, 2009

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Palestinians would not agree to re-launch peace talks with Israel without a complete freeze of Jewish settlements.

Abbas rejected the request from Clinton because a deal reached between US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and Israel ‘‘does not include a complete freeze of settlement activities,’’ Erakat said.

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