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Palestinian Pres.
CAIRO, Jan 24 (KUNA) -- Head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
Mahmoud Abbas said here Monday that the reports aired by a satellite channel
on the Palestinian negoatiations with Israel aimed at confusing facts, but PNA
has nothing to hide.
Further, Abbas said in a statement following his meeting with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak here that, "the details of all meetings that we hold,
and all proposals that we make or put forward by others to us are submitted to
the Arab countries with all their concomitant documents and papers."
A satellite channel aired an report saying the PNA offered new concessions
to Israel during the negotiations in relation to settlements construction.
Abbas reiterated the impossibility of accepting the establishment of a
Palestinian state within temporary borders, deeming that such state should
practically be of permanent borders, and there will be no solution after that.
Further, he said that the draft resolution that was put forward before the
UN Security Council echoes what is embedded in the "Roadmap Peace Plan", and
what was stated by US President Barack Obama, and US Secretary of State on the
illegitimacy of settlement activities.
Abbas also expressed his wonderment at the rejection of such draft
resolution or vetoing it, asserting that Europe, Russia or other world
countries cannot replace the US, but they can support the US stance or
motivate it to develop and draw closer to the level of European statements.
On the Russian stance following the recent visit paid by Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev to the Palestinian territories, Abbas described it as "good
and firm" before and after the visit, making clear that the visit is the first
to be made by a country such as Russia in what he termed as "a very bold step."
Further, Abbas said that the visit came under a new wave of declarations
recognizing the Palestinian state by the Latin American countries.
Regarding the forthcoming meeting of donor countries in the French capital
of Paris, Abbas said that European countries have a consensual opinion, and
are maintaining their support to the Palestinians, expressing his belief that
there is no change in the European policy.
He also said that the acts of recognizing the Palestinian state are of
political, diplomatic and morale significance, and that they put pressures on
the world, "as these parties say through this recognition to those who do not
want to recognize the Palestinian state that we recognize such state."
On the charges made against the Palestinian fundamentalist trend of staging
the bombing of Al-Qiddisain (Two Saints) Church in Alexandria, Abbas said
that, "whoever carried out such act is a criminal by all measures, and so the
Egyptian judiciary should inflict the maximum punishment stated by law on
whoever proved to be committed such crime whether he is from Gaza or any other
place." (end)
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