I hope that in the future he (bama) can play a more important role: Mahmoud Abbas
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:50:37 GMT
Abbas (L) speaks alongside Argentine President Cristina Fernandez
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Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has stated
that President Obama is doing nothing to revive the 'peace
process' between Israel and the Palestinians.
"For now he is doing nothing, but he has invited us to
revive the peace process. I hope that in the future he can
play a more important role," Abbas said in an interview with
the Argentine daily Clarin on Tuesday during a visit to
Argentina.
�The Palestinians expect the US to exert pressure on Israel
to get it to show respect for international law and
implement the Road Map plan. They can exert pressure on
Israel so as to do two things; halting settlement activities
and withdrawal from the Palestinian territories they
occupied in 1967,� he further explained.
For her part, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez
criticized Washington for doing too little to restart the
'peace talks' that were broken off in December 2008, when
Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip, which killed over
1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Last week, Israel gave its approval for the construction of
hundreds of new housing units in the illegally annexed East
Jerusalem Al-Quds, drawing international criticism as it
drove another stake into the heart of efforts to restart the
so-called peace process.
Under the 2002 Roadmap for the 'Peace plan' brokered by the
United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and
Russia, Israel has to dismantle settlement outposts erected
since 2001 and also freeze all settlement activities.
There are currently 121 Israeli settlements and
approximately 102 Israeli outposts built illegally on
Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967. All of these
settlements and outposts are illegal under the international
law and have been condemned by numerous United Nations
Security Council resolutions.
These settlements and outposts are inhabited by a population
of 462,000 Israeli settlers. Some 191,000 Israelis are
living in settlements around Jerusalem Al-Quds and an
additional 271,400 are spread throughout the West Bank.
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