Fayyad: We reject all interim arrangements
Published yesterday (updated) 12/12/2009 20:52
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Ramallah - Ma'an - Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced on
Saturday that there will be no peace so long as settlement expansion
continues, in a speech given at the National Conference for the
Strengthening of Palestinian Popular Activity against the Separation Wall
and Settlements in Ramallah.

Fayyad added that "the establishment of a Palestinian state on all
territories occupied in 1967, chief among them East Jerusalem" remains the
sole viable option for guaranteeing peace and stability in the region.

"We strenuously reject all the solutions being proposed by Israel's leaders,
such as solutions involving interim arrangements,"

"We have no intention of continuing with the formula of interim arrangements
and of accepting a state of strips of territory that have no territorial
contiguity."

The prime minister added that "We learned the lessons of the first Intifada
and its results. We will act to reach a comprehensive agreement on the basis
of resolutions by the international community and we will reject every
attempt to once again enter this whirlwind of negotiations without results
and long-term arrangements."

The conference in Ramallah was undertaken to encourage Palestinians to
launch non-violent demonstrations against the separation wall and settlement
growth in the West Bank.