Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has warned in a letter to EU high representative Catherine Ashton that an end to Israel's partial settlement freeze would bring an immediate halt to direct peace talks, announced on Friday (19 August).
"It's impossible to conduct negotiations alongside settlement construction," he wrote in a letter to the EU's foreign policy chief, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, the Israeli daily, Haaretz, reports.
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