Palestinian President Renews Call for Peace Conference
Date
2/15/2016 9:06:20 PM
(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))
TOKYO 15th February 2016 (WAM)President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine Monday renewed his call for an international conference and collective mechanism to be held and set up to bring the Israeli Occupation to an end within a scheduled timeline.
"We are working with the ad-hoc Arab Ministerial Committee to seek a UN Security Council resolution on [Israeli] settlements given their jeopardizing of security and stability in our region as well their obstruction of the two-state solution" he stated according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Abbas added Palestinians were not "seeking negotiations for the sake of negotiations" with the Israeli side. He stressed his leadership will not accept partial or interim solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
He pledged that his leadership would continue to accede to international treaties and conventions in order to safeguard Palestinian people's rights and consolidating the bases of future democratic Palestinian state.
Abbas also praised Japan for its role in pushing for a solution to the conflict urging it to play a greater role in reaching a political solution based on ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders and within a scheduled timeline.
Earlier the day Abbas met with the Emperor of Japan Akihito in the Imperial Palace in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
Abbas arrived in Tokyo on Sunday in an official four day-visit to Japan.