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PA negotiator Ahmed Qureia (AP)
Last update - 04:05 12/11/2007
PA negotiators forced to call off talks after blocked at checkpoint
By Reuters
Tags: Palestinians, peace process 

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' negotiators called off talks on Sunday ahead of a U.S.-sponsored peace conference, saying they were stopped at West Bank checkpoint.

Palestinian officials said chief negotiator Ahmed Qureia and other members of the negotiating team were stopped by Israel Defense Forces soldiers near Jerusalem while on their way to meet their Israeli counterparts to try to draft a joint statement ahead of the Annapolis, Maryland conference scheduled for in late November.

Qureia said his team was held at the West Bank checkpoint for 25 minutes and was asked to keep waiting, but the negotiators refused. They were expected in Jerusalem for a meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the head of the Israeli negotiating team.
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"The Palestinian delegation is very angry," Qureia said. "We don't go to negotiate with them in order to be humiliated. We represent the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause this is a humiliation we can't accept. We will propose never to conduct negotiations in Israel again."

"We cannot carry out negotiations like this," Qureia said. An aide said Qureia informed Israel that he wanted to move the talks to another country.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Israel regretted the incident and pledged it would be investigated. He said Livni talked to Qureia, and he hoped their meeting could be rescheduled as soon as possible. "Important work needs to be done, gaps must be narrowed," Regev said.





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