RAMALLAH, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) on Sunday urged the U.S. administration to maintain its credibility as a sponsor of stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

    The call was made after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported Israel's demands to resume the negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions.

    "Clinton's statements are alternation in the American position," said Nabil Abu Rdineh, a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas. "If the U.S. administration and the international community are interested in the resumption of the peace negotiations, such stances and views must be changed," Abu Rdineh told Voice of Palestine radio.

    The Palestinians want Israel to halt Jewish settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem while Clinton has said that the negotiations must be resumed as soon as possible without preconditions.

    On Saturday, Clinton met Abbas who rejected a U.S. offer to restart the peace talks with Israel continues settlement in East Jerusalem. The offer also gives Israel the right to build public facilities in the existed West Bank settlements and to complete a project building 3,000 new houses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

    "It is impossible and unwelcome that Israel be given justifications and pretexts to continue the settlement activities; they must be stopped before any debate on resuming the negotiations," Abu Rdineh said.

    Meanwhile, the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that Clinton's remarks "trigger the Palestinian leadership concerns."

    "We have asked Washington for clarifications on the change in its policy regarding the settlement," Erekat told reporters.

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