Saeb Erekat
Saeb Erekat
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...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 April 1955
choice hope parallels peace
Settlements and peace are two parallels that won't meet. I hope their choice will be peace, not settlements.
agreement conclude decision hope last night ourselves peace state strategic year
We hope that we can conclude an agreement this year and with that we can have our own state by agreement, ... The decision last night was to recommit ourselves to peace as a strategic option.
competition hope meaning succeed
We are really concerned. We hope that competition (to succeed him) will not be at our expense, meaning more settlements, more walls, more incursions, more assassinations, more occupation, more dictates.
choice hope parallels peace
These settlements and peace are two parallels that won't meet. I hope their choice will be peace, not settlements.
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I hope that at this critical period, we will concentrate on the bigger picture, ... The answer to extremists on both sides sworn to sabotage this process must be a big 'No.'
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I hope they will succeed in allowing goods to come into Gaza as of tomorrow to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
hope opportunity
I hope that the withdrawal will be a day of opportunity ù and also a day of law.
continue land policy stealing wasting
we will continue to see this government's policy of stealing (land) and wasting time.
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We didn't get responses on forming a Palestinian-Israeli joint committee to follow up and observe the operation of distributing ballots, voting and the movement of voters as well as candidates.
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What they are doing in the negotiations and in the preparations for negotiations is to define the limitations on us, ... whether you call us self-governing or you call us a state.
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We have a difficult task ahead of us. We are determined to exert every possible effort to expedite the implementation of the interim agreement on the ground.
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We asked the US administration to continue with its support and not to enforce collective punishment, which will have disastrous consequences.
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Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.
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Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.