Palestinian source told Al Quds: Rice supports the creation of a Palestinian
state on the borders of 67
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Al Quds (Jerusalem) Wednesday August 27 2008 --
Jerusalem - A high-level Palestinian source in the Palestinian Presidential
Office told Al Quds that the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
touched for the first time during talks yesterday with Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah ono the need to establish a Palestinian state on
the borders of June 67.
The source said that "Rice touched for the first time during her meeting
with the two sides to the issue of borders in June 1967, including the Gaza
Strip and occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley and
parts of the Dead Sea."
The source added that "this is a kind of development and clear by the U.S.
administration about the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis."
He explained that Rice urged the parties to hold meetings daily and
intensive secret between them to reach a formula acceptable to both parties,
and that it will pursue every course of meetings to be held between
Palestinian and Israeli sides.
The source confirmed that Rice asked the two sides to agreed with each other
to make limited adjustments on the 67 borders and requested action on the
issue of Jerusalem and to reach understandings with respect religious sites
and also the security and administrative arrangements concerning the
relationship between the two parts of the city east and west.
The source said that Rice informed the parties that the U.S. administration
will seek to develop understandings on an international mechanism to
compensate Palestinian refugees as part of the solution to this problem.
The same source revealed that American General James Jones U.S. envoy for
security in the Middle East would work during the period of the near future
to complete the security arrangements for the establishment of a Palestinian
state, in the light of the significant differences in the positions of the
Palestinian and Israeli sides with regard to these arrangements.
The source explained, "Jones held a series of meetings with Palestinian and
Israeli sides to clarify their positions to reach concrete results accepted
by the parties and be presented to the American administration."
It was the official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu
Rudeineh who revealed that Rice had raised "new ideas" concerning the peace
process during her meeting with Abbas in Ramallah yesterday.
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