By Prensa Latina
Ramallah : The Al Fatah Movement accused US President George W. Bush of violating UN Resolution 194 (1948) about Palestinian refugees Saturday.
The Resolution 194 states the right of refugees to go back to their homes, and establishes payment of compensation or of the goods belonging to those who decide not to go back.
Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Al Fatah s parliamentary block, said that Bush has only offered payment to Palestinians, without giving them the possibility of return to their homes.
This right is one of the essential topics in the negotiations of the Israeli government with Palestine, and the former rejects the return of Palestinian refugees.
ó The resolution must be tackled completely, without any kind of divisions, ó al-Ahmad said to local newspaper Asharq al Awssat, which is also edited in London.
An offer based on compensation was rejected in the conversations celebrated in the year 2000 in Camp David, US, between historical Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Also on Saturday, Saeb Erekat, head of the Palestinian negotiating delegation, doubted the independent state Palestinians are aspiring will be proclaimed this year, and related it with the slowness of the peace process.
Erekat said that for 2008, they will wait for a peace agreement specifying the aspects of the final status, and that the success of an agreement depends on the capacity of Israel to stop the construction of settlements and eliminate control posts.
He said that the Israeli government must commit to serious negotiations for peace, since it ignores the Palestinian demands, which would change the environment of the conversations.
During the recent trip of US President George W. Bush to Israel and the West Bank, media increased the expectation about the creation of a Palestinian state as part of peace plan Route Map, but there has been no progress up to now.