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Last update - 11:34 20/11/2009
Palestinian PM sets 2-year target for statehood
By Reuters
Tags: Fayyad, Israel news 

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad set a goal on Monday of establishing a Palestinian state within two years.

"I call on all our people to unite around the project of establishing a state and to strengthen its institutions ... so that the Palestinian state becomes, by the end of next year or within two years at most, a reality," he said in a speech.

"Achieving this goal within two years is possible," he told an audience at Al Quds University near Jerusalem.
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Fayyad, a technocrat with no significant political base of his own, heads a newly aligned cabinet with more ministers from the dominant Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Islamist Hamas rivals refuse to recognize.

In line with Abbas' policy, he signaled no change in the Palestinian refusal to resume peace talks with Israel until it freezes Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Palestinians, he said, should win world support by building up all the institutions for the independent state they seek.

"I think the need for it has become more pressing after the speech of the Israeli prime minister tried to bypass the international consensus that calls for Israel to implement its obligations," Fayyad said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech on June 14, said he was ready to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state, but only if shorn of many of the attributes of sovereignty, notably an army and control of its own borders.

Netanyahu has also refused to freeze the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, as agreed by previous Israeli governments in international agreements.

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      1.   Why wait? 19:50  |  Wile E Coyote 22/06/09
      2.   fatuous deadlines 20:02  |  bronxite10 22/06/09
      3.   Fayyad could have used this opportunity to state clearly and... 20:45  |  Amihai 22/06/09
      4.   Amihai and if it isn,t what will you do with those "others" 21:28  |  Jane@amazon.com 22/06/09
      5.   Maybe in a hundred years 21:49  |  Baruch Gold 22/06/09
      6.   What have they been doing all this time and with all the money 21:57  |  Bill 22/06/09
      7.   To #4 22:09  |  Aphemia 22/06/09
      8.   International Commitments? Road Map? Then What is He Bypassing... 22:20  |  Eli 22/06/09
      9.   2 years means never 22:50  |  John Morgan 22/06/09
      10.   . 23:30  |  ALF 22/06/09
      11.   To Aphemia #4 23:30  |  a 22/06/09
      12.   5: Jane,Jane,Jane,Jane 23:34  |  ALF 22/06/09
      13.   To #3, 4, 5, 6. Israel could do this! 23:46  |  Wile E Coyote 22/06/09
      14.   try this one 23:52  |  in two yrs 22/06/09
      15.   Sancho Panza 23:55  |  Mark Lincoln 22/06/09
      16.   Two years? They could have a state in two weeks. 00:25  |  Jordann 23/06/09
      17.   Hi Samed - your proposal would never work because 00:28  |  Moe 23/06/09
      18.   I cannot find a history of the Palestinian arabs in Israel befor 00:40  |  ks 23/06/09
      19.   #3 An interesting argument, Amihai 04:18  |  Johnboy 23/06/09
      20.   #18 Such nonsense, Jordann 03:52  |  Johnboy 24/06/09
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