Agency Reporter
A Middle East peace plan presented by United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump contravenes several United Nations resolutions, Russian news agencies cited a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as saying on Sunday.
The Russian spokesman questioned the plan’s feasibility.
The Palestinian Authority has cut all ties with the United States and Israel, including those relating to security, after rejecting the Middle East peace plan put forward by Trump.
“We see the reaction from the Palestinians; we see the reaction of a wide range of Arab states, which have sided with the Palestinians in rejecting the plan. This, obviously, makes one think about its feasibility,” Peskov was quoted as saying.
The Palestinian Authority at the weekend cut all ties with the United States and Israel, including those relating to security, after rejecting the peace plan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.
Abbas was in Cairo to address the Arab League, which backed the Palestinians in their opposition to Trump’s plan.
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The blueprint, endorsed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls for the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state that excludes Jewish settlements built in occupied territory and is under near-total Israeli security control.
“We’ve informed the Israeli side … that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States including security ties,” Abbas told the one-day emergency meeting, called to discuss Trump’s plan.
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Israeli officials had no immediate comment on his remarks.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s security forces have long cooperated in policing areas of the occupied West Bank that are under Palestinian control. The PA also has intelligence cooperation agreements with the CIA, which continued even after the Palestinians began boycotting the Trump administration’s peace efforts in 2017.
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