Tehran 26January_A high-ranking Palestinian official has threatened that the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority would withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords in case US President Donald Trump unveils his so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat told AFP on Sunday that his organization reserves the right “to withdraw from the interim agreement” if Trump announces his plan.
Erekat added that the Trump initiative will turn Israel's “temporary occupation (of Palestinian territories) into a permanent occupation.”.
The Oslo Accords -- consisting of Oslo I and Oslo II accords -- were signed by late chairman of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin respectively in Washington DC, in 1993 and Taba, Egypt, in 1995. The purported goal of the accords was to achieve peace based on the United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and to realize the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
The Palestinian foreign ministry issued a statement on Sunday, saying, "The US administration will not find a single Palestinian who supports this project," adding, "Trump's plan is the plot of the century to liquidate the Palestinian cause."
According to the statement, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riad al-Malki said the Palestinian leadership is discussing practical steps with Arab countries to respond to the US plan at all levels.
According to Wafa news agency, the statement followed a meeting in Ramallah with Egyptian Ambassador to Palestine, Essam El-Din Ashour, in which the two sides discussed diplomatic moves to face the US administration’s decision to release the so-called deal of the century.
Malki stressed the unwavering position of the Palestinian leadership in rejection of the US administration’s decisions on Jerusalem al-Quds and the so-called deal of the century.
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