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Palestinians count on Trump for achieving two-state solution

Xinhua, November 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

A senior Palestinian official said Friday the Palestinians are looking forward to positively working with the U.S. administration of President-elect Donald Trump to realize the two-state solution.

Saeb Erekat, secretary general of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), made the announcement in a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with the U.S. Consul General Donald Bloom.

He also said in a statement that he conveyed to President Trump that "all types of Israeli settlement are illegal," adding that "the Israeli government's decision to annex occupied East Jerusalem is illegal, and we don't recognize it."

Erekat had earlier met in Ramallah with visiting New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully, and called on New Zeland, a member of the UN Security Council, to nack the choice of the two-state.

On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with McCully and stressed to New Zeland's top diplomat that the Palestinian leadership is exerting all efforts to keep the choice of the two-state solution.

"The efforts to keep the two-state solution between us and the Israelis are aimed at rescuing the peace process which has so far reached a deadlock due to the Israeli policies that reject the international resolutions," Abbas told reporters.

The last round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, sponsored by the United States, collapsed in April 2014, after nine months of futile efforts. Endit