Erekat: Palestinians would lose most if French peace push failed

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday that there was no French initiative for peace in the Middle East, but only ideas for holding an international conference.

 

Erekat’s remarks came after he met in Ramallah with French envoy Pierre Vimont. The French emissary is scheduled to meet later with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Foreign Minister Riad Malki.

 

Erekat said after the meeting that he told the French envoy that the Palestinians were the most to benefit from the proposed international conference to “end the occupation, establish two states on the basis of the 1967 borders and halt Israeli extra-judicial executions.”

 

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