A senior Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, backed the US Secretary of State John Kerry's initiative to restart stalled peace talks, reports Reuters.
Describing the situation in the West Bank as the worse than that of the Apartheid in South Africa, Erekat told the UN committee in New York on Monday:
Describing the situation in the West Bank as the worse than that of the Apartheid in South Africa, Erekat told the UN committee in New York on Monday:
"We have no conditions to resume negotiations,"
"Make no mistake we are exerting every possible effort in order to see that Mr. Kerry succeeds. No one benefits more from the success of Secretary Kerry than Palestinians and no one loses more from his failure than Palestinians,"
"Mr. Kerry is keeping things [close to] his chest. He likes to work very, very, very below the radar and grow things like mushrooms,"
"We did everything ... in order to enable him to succeed. He is not going to wait for years or months actually, he's working very hard."