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Cairo:
The head of the Arab League has said that Palestinians cannot move
into direct peace talks with Israel unless "written guarantees" are
given beforehand.
Amr Mussa, the secretary general of the 22-member pan-Arab
organisation, spoke in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian
president, held meetings aimed at breathing new life into the
stalled peace process.
Mubarak spent Sunday in talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
president, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister and George
Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East peace process.
Israel and the US had hoped they could persuade the Arab League to
back a Palestinian return to the negotiating table without
preconditions, but after a meeting with Mitchell, Mussa dismissed
the idea.
"We cannot automatically move from one negotiation to another
without written guarantees," Mussa, whose organisation backed
indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians in May, said.
'Resuming direct talks'
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Egyptian foreign minister, said after the
meetings that no breakthrough had been achieved.
"We are still hopeful that we can bridge this gap. The gap between
the needs for security for Israel and the borders for the
Palestinians," he said.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Egypt, said that it
looked as though the Palestinians would not be tempted back to
negotiations without specific guarantees on crucial issues such as
borders, settlements and security assistance.
"So far the indications are that not enough progress has been made
to warrant moving from proximity talks to direct talks," he said.
In an interview with the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad on Saturday,
Abbas laid out a number of conditions for negotiations with Israel.
He said he would resume direct talks if Israel agreed to the borders
prior to the 1967 Middle East war as the basis for a Palestinian
state.
He also requested an international force deployed along the border
to protect the Palestinian state.
"If they agree to that, we will consider that acceptable progress,
and we will move to direct negotiations," Abbas told the newspaper.
Abbas made no mention of requiring Israel to freeze settlement
growth, which has long been a precondition for direct talks. The
10-month suspension of new settlement activity in the occupied West
Bank, announced last year by Netanyahu, will end in September.
Yasser Abd Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, told Al Jazeera he
wants the United States to clarify its position on several issues,
including borders, before resuming direct talks.
'PA's refusal of talks'
Immediately after the Obama Administration proposed the direct
talks and Israeli Prime Minister called on Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas, the Palestinian Authority (PA) had rejected the
proposal.
“We reject the call,” chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Erekat told the Voice of Palestine radio that “The era in which we
held negotiations while Israel continued its unilateral procedures
away from the references of peace no longer exists and has gone
forever.”
“The key to direct talks is in the hand of Prime Minister
Netanyahu,” said Erekat. “The minute he announces a (total)
settlement freeze, the minute he announces the resumption of final
status (talks) where we left them in December 2008, we will have
direct talks.”
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