Saeb Erakat
Saeb Erakat
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekatwas the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. He later reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003...
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These experts will work with our team as of tomorrow afternoon. President Arafat has assigned a team to follow up on all its aspects.
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We don't want a meeting for the sake of the meeting. We need a meeting with substance.
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The solution is in the hands of Dennis Ross. We hope he is coming to save the process.
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The stalemate in the negotiations. the non-implementation of the agreements, the policy of settlement expansion -- all joined together spells disaster,
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I urge the Israelis to understand that we need to continue talking. I also urge the good office of President Bush to exert every possible effort to resume the contacts.
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The whole situation is in a very, very critical juncture now. Something needs to happen, in terms of implementation of the road map, and the only party that can do that intervention is the United States, and I hope they will interfere immediately in order to give the road map the chance it deserves.
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President Clinton said he will give the same chance to the Israelis to pose their reservations and qualifications and then he will get in touch with us ... We will wait and see what Mr. Ross carries with him before we jump to conclusions.
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Both of them (Katsav and Sharon) confirmed that they were ready to meet Abu Mazen as well without any formal date being finalised.
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We should be prepared for elections and carry out whatever is possible to implement,
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We are still waiting to hear from them.
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We are still at odds over the numbers of the prisoners to be released, ... We are demanding 400 and they will only accept 350.
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We don't want to meet just for the sake of meeting. We want a well-prepared meeting with an extensive agenda focusing on all the current issues.
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We had five days of intensive talks. It's been tough, it's been difficult.
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will be the biggest blow to President Bush's two-state solution and will sabotage any idea of a road map.