US Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell is interested in making peace in the whole region rather than the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, chief Palestinian negotiator said on Saturday.

In his second tour since the Barak Obama's administration entrusted him, Mitchell met Israeli leaders on Thursday and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his premier Salam Fayyad on Friday.

"Mitchell emphasized Obama's commitment to the two-state solution" and the US president "will save no effort to achieve this on the ground," Erekat said.

Mitchell's Mideast tour comes at a time the Israelis and the Palestinians were busy in their internal politics. As Israel's Likud party head Benjamin Netanyahu continues his efforts to form a coalition, Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah launched a reconciliation dialogue in Cairo with a target to form a unity government.

"We have stressed before Mitchell that any upcoming Israeli government must accept the two-state solution, the peace deals and lifting the siege in order to be our peace partner," Erekat stressed.

Erekat renewed that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will not continue peace talks with Israel if the coming Israeli government rejected the regional peace treaties, continued the settlement constructions in the West Bank and the sanctions on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

(Xinhua News Agency February 28, 2009)