RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, said yesterday that, Palestine welcomes any international initiative, to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinian people look forward to ending the Israeli occupation of their territories, and establishing their independent Palestinian state, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, Ishtaye told an online international conference on the Middle East.
He called on the international community, “to protect the principle of the two-state solution from vanishing, amid the current political vacuum,” adding that, “this is the proper time for ending the occupation and implement the two-state solution.”
Ishtaye added that, any peace process or initiative “should rely on clear reference, a time schedule, and goodwill gestures by all parties, in addition to having a fair peace mediator and measures of trust-building.”
He said, despite all attempts by the previous Israeli government of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to divert attention from the Palestinian cause, “it will remain the central issue in the Middle East.”
