Abbas: Palestinians Will Take Necessary Choices to Protect 2-State Solution

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel's continued settlement policy and its denial of the rights of the Palestinian people will destroy all remaining opportunities to implement the two-state solution.

Abbas stressed that the Palestinian leadership will take all the necessary choices to protect the rights of the Palestinian people because it will not accept the continuation of the occupation forever.

This came during a meeting between President Abbas, at the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency in Ramallah, with the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Duart Pachinko, in the presence of Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

The Palestinian President briefed Pachinko on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, and the aggressive practices carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people.

Abbas affirmed the importance of the efforts made by the International Parliament to support the struggle of the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights to freedom and independence.

He welcomed the convening of the Middle East Committee in the International Parliament, a special session in Palestine to discuss the conditions experienced by the Palestinian people as a result of the occupation.

In turn, the President of the International Parliament confirmed his keenness to visit Palestine and learn about the conditions experienced by the Palestinian people on the ground, in order to submit a special report to Parliament on what he witnessed in Palestine during the conference that will be held in Madrid next month.

He reiterated his support for the two-state solution and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and the Special Committee on the Middle East in the International Parliament held a special session in Palestine to discuss its conditions.

On the twenty-first of last October, more than twenty leaders and former officials in the Israeli government, representing different segments of Israeli society, expressed their position in support of ending the Israeli occupation and implementing the two-state solution on the June 4, 1967 borders, in compliance with international legitimacy resolutions.