By Xinhua
Ramallah : Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will not accept postponing or excluding final-status issues from talks with the Israeli side, negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday.
Erekat said the negotiations will focus on six outstanding issues which, if resolved, would pave the way for the creation of the Palestinian statehood.
The final-status issues are Jerusalem, the settlements, the Palestinian statehood, refugees, water and the Palestinian-Israelities.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the PNA has accepted to delay talks on Jerusalem until the end of the negotiation process which was resumed at a U.S.-hosted conference held last November.
Olmert is set to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem later in the day as part of the two leaders’ biweekly meetings to discuss the obstacles that delay the progress of the peace talks.
“Today’s meeting will deal with the final negotiations in addition to the daily life matters,” Erekat said, adding that Abbas will ask Olmert not to carry out his threats of invading Gaza Strip.