Primeiro-Ministro Palestiniano Anuncia Estado para Meados de 2011
Palestinian Authority: to establish de facto state within two years, with or without Israeli co-operation.
Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad said Tuesday (August 25) that the Palestinian Authority plans to bypass stalled Mideast peace talks and establish its own de facto state within two years, Fayyad said the Palestinian Authority would push ahead with building a de facto state that included having competent security forces, functioning public services and a thriving economy.
"After 16 years (of failed peace talks) why not change the discourse?" Fayyad told The Times newspaper in an interview. "We have decided to be proactive, to expedite the end of the occupation by working very hard to build positive facts on the ground, consistent with having our state emerge as a fact that cannot be ignored. "This is our agenda, and we want to pursue it doggedly."
He said that if a functioning de facto state existed -- with or without Israeli co-operation -- it would force Israel to put its cards on the table on whether it was serious about ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories (West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza). He hoped that this goal could be achieved by mid-2011.
Fayyad's comments came ahead of talks in London between hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and with US Middle East envoy George Mitchell. US President Barack Obama's administration has been pressing Israel for a freeze on illegal Jewish settlement construction as a key step towards reviving peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Netanyahu rejects a total freeze. Fayyad said that it was vital for all such building in the West Bank stop. The peace talks were halted last December when Israel launched a deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip.
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