PA slams Israeli FM's remarks

Mon Dec 27, 2010

The chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator says the Israeli foreign minister is continuing to provoke Palestinians and acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Israeli provocation "is part of a plan to continue with settlement expansion in the West Bank," Saeb Erekat said after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described the PA as "illegitimate."

Erekat said that it is Israel that does not seek peace, adding that continuing the illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem), along with the blockade against Gaza, "indicate that Israel rejects the negotiations," Xinhua reported.

Lieberman also said on Sunday evening that reaching an imminent peace deal with the Palestinians was "impossible" and Israel should not even try to pursue one.

But Israeli prime minister's office later issued a statement saying Lieberman's position did not represent Israel.

Lieberman's comments represent his personal political positions, just as ministers in the government have different positions from each other, the statement said.

Israel's position is solely the one that the prime minister expresses, it read.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157317.html.