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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:30 PM Jul 2013

Abbas vows to put any peace deal to a referendum

AMMAN (AFP) -- President Mahmoud Abbas said any future peace deal with Israel will be put to a referendum, in remarks published Monday, four days after Washington announced the resumption of negotiations.

"Any agreement with the Israelis will be brought to a referendum," Abbas told Jordanian government-owned Al-Rai newspaper.

"The United States is serious about reaching a political solution to the Palestinian cause by establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 lines with east Jerusalem as its capital."

US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had agreed to meet to prepare a resumption of direct peace talks, stalled since 2010.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=615869

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