RAMALLAH, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will deliver an "extremely important" speech at the UN General Assembly next Wednesday, presidential spokesperson said on Sunday.
Palestinian Presidential Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdineh said the speech of President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN General Assembly, scheduled next Wednesday, will be "extremely important."
Abu Rdineh said Abbas will emphasize the need for the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, the official news agency WAFA reported.
He stressed that the official position of Abbas and the Palestinian leadership rejects interim resolutions "nor a state in Gaza Strip without the West Bank or East Jerusalem," and that the leadership will only accept "an independent and sovereign state on the borders of 1967."
Abbas is also scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the outlook of the U.S. efforts in the Middle East," WAFA said.
The last round of peace talks between Palestine and Israel stopped in 2014, after nine months of U.S. sponsored talks that achieved no major breakthrough, with differences mainly focused on Israeli settlement activity.
