Abbas’s PLO Lists Conditions for Restoring Ties With U.S.

Date: 20 December 2020 - 21:09

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RAMALLAH (Dispatches) - The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has laid forth certain conditions for normalizing ties with the United States.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chaired a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee.
The committee agreed to restore ties with the U.S. if the new administration allows for the PLO office in Washington to resume its work.
Other conditions include withdrawing support for the Zionist regime’s plans to extend its West Bank and settlement activity and resuming discussions on creation of a Palestinian state.
In September, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said that it was important for more countries to continue working toward a so-called two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to extend the regime’s occupied territories over Palestinian lands, but the plan, which comes under outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s deal for some countries in the Middle East, has been postponed. Netanyahu’s plans to extend the illegal settlements in Palestinian territories has been condemned by members of the United Nations and the European Union.
Hamas said at the end of June that it would consider the extension of the regime’s settlements over additional parts of the West Bank a declaration of war against the Palestinians.
In May, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas terminated all treaties with the U.S. and the Zionist regime after Netanyahu announced plans to extend the illegal settlements to some parts of the West Bank during a swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet.