PA welcomes French peace initiative

France, which announced the initiative late last month, has threatened to unilaterally recognize the “State of Palestine” if its peace efforts fail.”We definitely welcome the French initiative, we see it as a major possibility for challenging the status quo,” Hossam Zomlot, an advisor to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, told reporters, according to AFP. Zomlot, however, said the Palestinians insisted on their call for a United Nations resolution against Israeli “settlement building” ahead of any renewed peace process.”Nothing will convince us that we should not go to the United Nations Security Council over settlements,” declared Zomlot, who is a senior official in Abbass Fatah party.Frances ambassador to Israel, Patrick Maisonnave, met Israeli officials this week to outline the initiative, which proposes setting up a support group of the permanent Security Council members, some Arab and European states and international organizations.It would work in two stages, meeting first without the conflicting parties and then bringing them into the conference.

 

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