‘Israeli reply to Mahmoud Abbas vague’

“The Israeli message did not contain clear answers on the central issues hampering the resumption of negotiations,” said Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary general of Palestinian Authority’s executive committee.

Rabbo made the remarks in a statement read to a press conference after a meeting of the executive committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday.

On April 17, acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter to Netanyahu, citing various issues, mainly a call on Israel to stop its illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and to release all Palestinian prisoners.

Netanyahu’s representative, Yitzhak Molcho, met with Abbas in Ramallah on Saturday and delivered the answer to the April letter.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas censured the Saturday meeting.

Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority stalled in September 2010 after Netanyahu refused to renew a 10-month freeze on illegal Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

On January 3, Molcho and Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat met in the Jordanian capital, Amman, for the first time in over a year. The meeting, however, ended inconclusively.

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