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Arabs agree to Israel-Palestinian talks
 
 
  
 
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CAIRO (AFP) - – Arab officials agreed in principle on Thursday to the holding of direct Middle East peace negotiations and left it up to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to decide when to start talks with Israel.
 
Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been under pressure from Washington to move forward, and the announcement prompted Netanyahu to express openness to starting talks "in the next few days."
 
Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani made the announcement after chairing a meeting of foreign ministers and representatives in Cairo.
 
He spoke in response to a question about whether they had given Abbas a "green light" to start talks.
 
"I'll be clear. There is an agreement but with the understanding of what will be discussed and how the direct negotiations will be conducted. And we will leave the assessment of the position to the Palestinian president as to when the conditions allow the beginning of such negotiations," he said.
 
The meeting drafted a letter to US President Barack Obama which laid out the "general principles" of peace talks, an official who tooK part in the meeting said.
 
They included "the presence of a clear reference for the direct negotiations and a halt to (certain) Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories, especially a halt to settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
 
Arab League chief Amr Mussa said "written guarantees" were required for direct talks.
 
There "must be written guarantees ... and the negotiations should be serious and final status talks," he said.
 
Hisham Yusef, who heads Mussa's office, said the meeting gave a "yellow light that needs some work before it turns green."
 
In Jerusalem, a statement from Netanyahu's office said: "In response to the Arab League decision, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he is ready to start, already in the next few days, direct and frank talks with the Palestinian Authority.
 
Abbas has conditioned the talks on an Israel guarantee for Palestinian state based on pre-1967 war borders between the Jewish state and east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
 
He also wants an end to settlement construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel acceded to US pressure to limit settlement building in the West Bank until September, when a moratorium ends.
 
The Palestinian leader repeated his conditions on the eve of the meeting in an interview with Egyptian newspaper editors, the official Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Thursday.
 
Abbas said he would tell the meeting that if there was "no serious vision relating to the 1967 borders and an end to settlements then I cannot enter direct negotiations," adding he would immediately enter negotiations if his demands were guaranteed.
 
He complained about "pressures I have never faced before in my life" from Washington and the European Union.
 
Abbas suspended direct negotiations with Israel after its offensive on the Islamist Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in December 2008 in response to rocket fire.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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