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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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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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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We demanded from the Israelis to move their forces outside the area of friction, at the entrances of our towns, villages and refugee camps -- to no avail,
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The Israelis would do better to attach no conditions and come back to the bargaining table.
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Instead of saying unilateral separation, unilateral fences, I tell the Israelis we need to establish good fences between us, because good fences make good neighbors.
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If he wants to see the future generations of Palestinians and Israelis living in peace, what are the forces doing in the West Bank and Gaza?
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I know students who come to my office who are supposed to go to Amman or America in their fifth year or sixth year ... , ... The Israelis are telling them, 'You're not going to be allowed to leave unless you accept to collaborate with us.'
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a monitoring system so they can tell the Israelis what the Palestinians are doing and what they are not doing.
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I hope that Mr. Gold and Mr. Sharon will stop this broken record, assigning blame. Finger pointing will not save the lives of Israelis and Palestinians.
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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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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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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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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.