Ramallah: The United States has not yet talked with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about a new peace plan in the Middle East, a Palestinian newspaper reported Sunday.
While giving an interview to Ramallah-based Al-Ayyam newspaper, Abbas said that the US administration should endorse the references of the peace process in its plan, which include the fact that the borders of the Palestinian state combine the lands that Israel has occupied in 1967. The plan should refer to an equal swap of land, Abbas added.
As for the security, Abbas suggested that a third party should oversee it for a certain time, demanding also an end to the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
“Let’s agree on these three issues in order to start direct negotiations,” Abbas said, adding once serious peace talks resume, “they do not need more than one week to reach an agreement.”
Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the Obama administration will reveal a new policy towards the Middle East, adding that the stillness of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians was “no more sustainable.”
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were suspended in September 2010. The Palestinians walked out of the US-brokered negotiations, protesting the resumption of Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank.
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