Riyadh - Saudi Arabia pledged to use its diplomatic leverage to convince world leaders to aid Palestinian efforts to end Israeli settlement construction, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. Saudi King Abdullah told visiting President Mahmoud Abbas that he would exert pressure on "influential capitals, especially Washington," an official at the Palestinian Embassy in Riyadh, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the German Press Agency dpa.
Abbas, who is on a two-day visit to the kingdom, has refused to resume suspended peace talks with Israel without a complete Israeli halt to construction in its settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian leader was in Riyadh to discuss developments in international attempts to revive stalled talks between Israelis and Palestinians and between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November, after months of refusals, announced a 10-month partial moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank, but has since announced further building plans for East Jerusalem.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301409,saudis-say-they-will-pressure-washington-on-israeli-settlements.html.
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