An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday denied reports that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) had threatened to boycott post-Annapolis negotiations with Israel, which will kick off Wednesday.
Abbas' media adviser Nabil Amr made the denial to reporters in response to some media reports about possible PNA boycott of the negotiations after Israel planned to build houses in a disputed settlement in Jerusalem.
"The PNA has decided to work with the European countries in order to build pressure on Israel to cancel the recent tender and the settlement activities which will hamper the negotiations," Amr told the reporters.
At an U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference in Annapolis in late November, U.S. President George W. Bush announced that Israel and Palestinians will start their negotiations on Dec. 12 to discuss final statues issues to reach a tow-state solution.
But soon after the conference, Israel invited tenders to build 300 houses in a disputed settlement in Jerusalem though the Road Map peace plan, one of the talks' references, demands Israel to immediately freeze expanding the settlements.
Source: Xinhua
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