Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat thanks the United Nations for calling on Israel to stop illegal settlements and to end the demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank.
This is while in a televised speech on Thursday in Ramallah, Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas condemned the international community's indifference on the issue.
In a meeting with UN envoy, Robert Serry, Erekat stated that the ongoing Israeli settlement activities and Israel's refusal to resume peace talks, from the point they were halted in 2000, shows that the government of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu wants to avoid the first and second phases of the internationally approved Road Map peace plan.
He also said that Israel wants to enforce its own vision of a Palestinian state with temporary borders and without any real independence for the Palestinians.
This 'state' does not include al-Quds and does not include the 'right of return' of the Palestinian refugees, he said.
Erekat further said that a comprehensive and an everlasting peace means a full Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, including East Jerusalem and establishing an independent Palestinian state.
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