PA Foreign Minister Riyad Malki, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in a joint statement after meeting in Cairo that they had agreed to continue working towards launching “effective and serious negotiations [with Israel] to end the stalemate in the peace process and create a real political horizon for progress towards a just peace.”
The three ministers said that international resolutions, including United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, as well as the Arab Peace Initiative, should serve as a basis for the resumption of talks. Adopted by the Security Council in December 2016, Resolution 2334 expresses “grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution based on the 1967 lines.”
The Arab Peace Initiative, endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, offers normalization of relations by the Arab countries with Israel, in return for a full withdrawal by Israel from the Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. -Full Report
