The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will not accept any scene of Jewish settlement on the Palestinian territories under any solution, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday.

"The settlement on any inch of our land is illegal at all and it must be removed," Abbas told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Abbas reiterated the Palestinian calls for the international community to press Israel to freeze the settlements "don't mean that we accept what has been built in the past."

His remarks were in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said earlier that Israel accepts two-state solution with a number of conditions, such as a demilitarized Palestinian state with refugees remain outside their home towns that Israel has occupied in 1948.

"The sound position is that which emphasizes two states, halting all settlement activities, including the natural growth, and return to the negotiations," Abbas added.

To establish a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel in accordance with the U.S.-backed Road Map peace plan, Israel and the PNA have to pursue more talks.

The Palestinians and Israelis have not held any talks since the hawkish Netanyahu took office in late March as the PNA demands Israel to freeze the settlements first.

The case of the Palestinian refugees is one of the advanced issues the two sides still need to talk about. Abbas rejected Netanyahu's conditions that the refugees can not return to Israel, saying such statements "mean that they (the Israelis) don't want to talk about the final-status issues."

(Xinhua News Agency July 6, 2009)