Ramallah, December 24 (Saba) - The Palestinian Authority has informed the US and EU of its intention to request a UN Security Council resolution that condemns construction in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem, according to Qatar News agency (QNA).

The announcement was made here on Thursday during separate meetings held by Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat with US Consul- General Daniel Rubenstein and EU representative to the Palestinian territories Christian Berger.

Erekat said that the PA was hoping that the resolution would condemn the construction as illegal and in violation of international law. He said that the PA was still insisting that any peace talks with Israel be resumed from the point where they ended and not from point zero. Erekat said that in any case the basis for the talks should be the 1967 borders, although the PA does not rule out the idea of a "slight" land swap with Israel.

The PA won’t return to the negotiating table unless Israel freezes construction in the settlements and east Jerusalem, he stressed.


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