PLO blames U.S. for dropping negotiations of controversial issues

RAMALLAH, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization Saeb Erekat slammed Thursday that the U.S. is heading to drop negotiations over final status of Jerusalem and refugees, the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported.

Erekat said in a statement published by WAFA that "the U.S. administration is actually embarking on to a new path, which includes dictating solutions on the Palestinian people and dropping the Jerusalem and refugee files while keeping the situation as it is so that the upper hand will be for the Israeli occupation."

"We will have nothing left as Arabs without Jerusalem," he warned, urging the Arab countries to put into effect the 1980 Arab League summit resolution that calls for cutting relations with countries that move their embassies to Jerusalem.

The coming Arab League meetings will look into activating the boycott resolution, he noted, which is expected next Saturday in Amman, Jordan. Enditem