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
artificial breathing life peace
Mr. Ross is breathing artificial life into the peace process.
choice hope parallels peace
Settlements and peace are two parallels that won't meet. I hope their choice will be peace, not settlements.
lack major peace problem process trust
I think we have a major problem in the lack of credibility of the peace process and the trust between the two sides.
carried efforts obstacles peace president program reasons undermine
I think we have 3,000 more obstacles to peace and we will have, if this program is carried out, 3,000 reasons to undermine President Bush's efforts for a two-state solution.
peace words
His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our refugees. What kind of peace can we make with those words?
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He will ask for assistance in holding an international conference for peace as preparation to negotiate a permanent agreement in accordance with the road map.
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.
continuing efforts peace resume security talks
We are continuing efforts ... to try to resume the peace talks and stabilize the security situation.
believe final issues peace reserved status talk
I believe this pre-empts and prejudges issues that are reserved for final status negotiations. Any talk of pre-empting and prejudging is counterproductive to the peace process.
choice hope parallels peace
These settlements and peace are two parallels that won't meet. I hope their choice will be peace, not settlements.
afraid continue help left meaningful means peace process
I'm afraid that we will not have a peace process anymore, ... I would say 'God help Palestinians and Israelis' because to have a meaningful peace process means that we would continue where we left off.
decided peace process stop
It's really unfortunate that the only thing that Mr. Netanyahu has decided to stop is the peace process with us.
damages deal government inflicted peace process visit
It will take much more than one visit by Madeleine Albright to deal with the damages inflicted on the peace process by the government of Mr. Netanyahu.
peace
This is a real setback for the peace process.