RAMALLAH, March 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei on Monday urged Israel to start talks on the permanent borders of a future Palestinian state.

    Qurei made the appeal after meeting in Ramallah with Israeli and Palestinian parties, including the left-wing Israeli Yahad Party which helped give birth to both the historic 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2003 Geneva Initiative.

    The Oslo Accords granted the Palestinians self-rule in most areas in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank while the Geneva Initiative called for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupied in 1967 Mideast War, including Arab East Jerusalem, for a Palestinian state.

    Qurei said the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was eager todiscuss the permanent borders of a future Palestinian state with Israel, but he rejected "any diplomatic moves aimed at establishing a Palestinian state with the current temporary borders."

    The prime minister added that an arrangement on the permanent borders was able to be reached within a few months and that such an agreement should be based on previous peace talks including the Camp David summit, the Taba negotiations and talks under the auspices of the US administration between 2000 and 2001.

    Yossi Beilin, leader of Yahad Party, proposed during the meetingthat a joint plan be formulated to ensure the continuation of diplomatic efforts toward settlement of the conflicts, stressing the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza should be the first stage of the peace process.

    Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee Yasser Abed Rabbo, who also attended the meeting, said the talks also covered Israel's continuous construction of the separation wall and Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

    Abed Rabbo told Palestinian radio "Voice of Palestine" that such Israeli moves would undermine efforts aimed at reviving the peace process.

    He also accused Israel of not fulfilling its commitment to a ceasefire deal at the Feb. 8 summit between Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Ariel Sharon.

    Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners and the handover of West Bank cities after a Feb. 25 deadly suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv. Enditem