RAMALLAH, Palestine, Aug 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Ishtaye, said that, the “extreme and unilateral measures” of the U.S. have undermined the peace process with Israel.
Ishtaye told 37 American congressmen at his office in Ramallah that, “the U.S. administration’s measures have annulled all the final-status issues.”
Political ties between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the U.S. had been severed, after President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, in Dec, 2017, and then moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May last year.
The U.S. has also stopped funding the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, and closed the offices of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Washington.
Ishtaye stressed that, the U.S. measures “have annulled all the final-status issues that were agreed upon to be discussed with Israel, at the end of the interim period, such as the questions of Jerusalem, the refugees and encouraging Israeli settlement building.”
“The Palestinians are eager for peace that is based on right and justice,” Ishtaye told the congressmen, adding, “President Mahmoud Abbas exerted tremendous efforts with President Trump, to reach a form of just and comprehensive peace.”
“The best solution for us is the two-state solution, on the borders of 1967, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine, and a fair solution to Palestinian refugees,” said Ishtaye, in an official statement.– NNN-WAFA
