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PLO snorts Netanyahu for "darkening" Paris conference

Xinhua, January 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat said Wednesday that the international peace conference in Paris comes to safeguard the two state solution on the borders of 1967.

Erekat's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening said that the Paris conference expected mid January is futile.

Netanyahu said in press statements Tuesday night that "Paris conference is aimless" and warned that taking the adopted conference outcomes to make them another UN Security Council resolution."

"The main efforts now are focused on preventing the adoption of a new UNSC resolution or the Quartet," said Netanyahu.

On the other hand, Erekat said that the Palestinians will try to make the outcomes of the Paris conference in line with the latest UN resolution, international legitimacy and international law, highlighting that Palestinians are seeking with friendly states how to pursue them at the UN.

An international peace conference is expected to be held in Paris on Jan. 15, attended by 70 foreign ministers and UN organizations, but no representatives of Palestinians or Israelis.

Paris hosted an international ministerial meeting last June 3, attended by the foreign ministers of 25 countries, including four Arab countries, which debated the revival of the stalled peace process between Israel and Palestine.

The meeting was held based on an initiative launched by France to hold an international conference to look into an international mechanism to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the two-state solution.

Israel declared it is against the French initiative and said it is committed to bilateral negotiations in order to realize peace without preconditions.

The peace talks between Israel and Palestine have been stalled since April 2014. The U.S.-sponsored talks that lasted for nine months achieved no tangible results. Endit