PLO official calls for int'l rejection to Israel's annexation plan

A senior Palestinian official called on Saturday for an international rejection to the Israeli plans of annexing parts of the occupied West Bank.

"The Israeli annexation plan will undermine any opportunity for making peace in the Middle East," Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, said in a press statement.

He said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed letters to several world leaders explaining that the Israeli plan "means undermining any possibility of reaching any peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians."

"President Abbas called on the world leaders not to let the Israeli government execute its plans of apartheid and annexation," said Erekat, stressing that an international peace conference, based on international law, has to be held soon.

He added that holding an international peace conference based on the international legitimacy "aims at ending the Israeli occupation and establishing the independent state of Palestinian with East Jerusalem as its capital."

Erekat also clarified that the position of the Arab states sticks to the 2002 Arab peace initiative, adding that "Arabs agreed that there will be no normalization with Israel until it ends its occupation of the occupied Arab lands."

(XINHUA)