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| Qurei rules out talks with Quartet |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-08 17:56:14 |
GAZA, July 8
(Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei ruled out on Thursday the
possibility of talks with the Quartet on Middle East peace unless the latter
showed a clear position on the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank.
Qurei told reporters that "we reiterated to the
Quartet Committee representatives that we are not willing to speak about any
issue before it shows its clear position concerning the construction of the
separation Apartheid wall in the West Bank."
In a bid to
revive the stalled roadmap peace plan, Qurei met earlier Wednesday with
representatives of the Quartet, namely the United Nations, the United States,
the European Union (EU) and Russia, in the West Bank town of Ramallah over the
alleged Israeli unilateral evacuation from the Gaza Strip.
Qurei expressed earlier that while Israel spoke about a possible evacuation from
Gaza, it was expanding Jewish settlements and resuming the construction of its
separation wall in the West Bank.
"These activities aimed to
annex and alienate Jerusalem and Palestinians will not accept any resolutions
based on the expansion of the West Bank and Jerusalem," the prime minister
said.
Earlier this week, Israeli officials refused to meet the mediators of the Quartet who were in Jerusalem to discuss the Gaza pullout plan, saying the time was not ripe yet. Enditem |
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