Abbas: no solution without East Arab Jerusalem as capital
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 6/16/2008

Palestinian Presidency Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeina warned on Monday of the continued settlements in occupied Jerusalem, adding that such acts would kill the peace process.

Commenting on the Israeli Prime Mininster Ehud Olmert's statement, Abu Rdeina said Olmert's position is to decide unilaterally the status of Jerusalem and to impose facts on the negotiations and peace process and as such is absolutely.

Abu Rdeina stressed that there is no solution unless occupied Arab Jerusalem becomes the capital of the independent Palestinian state.

U.S. President George. Bush said that the establishment of a Palestinian state through negotiations could be reached by the end of this current year.

During his visit to Paris, President Bush stressed the necessity to establishing a Palestinian state to be a model in the region and to be an alternative vision of what is taking place in the Gaza Strip.

Bush told reporters that the Palestinian state should have clear borders and the necessity to solve the Palestinian refugees and the issue of Jerusalem, voicing concern of the continued Israeli of settlements, saying that the Palestinians are frustrated of settlement activities.

Head of the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Saeb Ereikat said on Sunday that the Israeli government approved tenders to build 1731 housing units during the period December 2007 to June 2008.
Ereikat told reporters that since Annapolis conference, Israel approved tenders for building 138 housing units in comparison of the same period of the last year. He stressed that continued Israeli aggressions, campaigns arrests and blockade on the West Ban and Gaza Strip would destroy and torpedo the peace process.

"Why ahead of Rice's arrival, Israel had approved construction of more new homes," Ereikat asked.

Rice said on Sunday that Israel's continued settlement building could hurt Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Israel's Haaretz reported. Rice in the area was to to meet Olmert in Jerusalem and President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and hold three-way talks with the lead negotiators, Israel foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former PM Ahmed Qureia.

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