RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian leadership on Saturday urged president Mahmud Abbas to quit US-backed peace talks over Israeli settlement construction, his spokesman said.
“Our position has not changed. We will not hold negotiations while settlement activity continues,” Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP after a special meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and top officials from Abbas’s Fatah movement.
He added, however, that the Palestinians would continue consultations with US mediators and would present the results of those talks to an Arab League meeting on Friday in the Libyan city of Sirte.
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