(Reuters) -
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet this week after more than a year
of deadlocked peacemaking and present their positions on core disputes to
foreign mediators, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.
Palestinian
delegate Saeb Erekat and Israel's Yitzhak Molcho will meet on Tuesday in
Jordan, said Wasl Abu Yossef, a senior figure in the umbrella Palestine
Liberation Organisation (PLO).
"Both
sides will offer their positions on security and borders. This is not a
resumption of negotiations," he told Reuters, adding that representatives
of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - the
so-called peace Quartet - would also attend.
Israel did
not immediately confirm the meeting would take place, but a spokesman for Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government sought peace talks
"without preconditions, any time and in any place."
Negotiations
stalled in late 2010 after Israel refused to renew a partial freeze on Jewish
settlement in the occupied West Bank as demanded by the Palestinians, who want
to found a state there as well as in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
Western-backed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has spurned Israel's demand he recognize it
as a Jewish state. He drew rebukes from the Netanyahu government by holding
power-share talks with the rival Hamas Islamists who rule Gaza.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.