RAMALLAH, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian leadership is making efforts to create a broad international front to resume the peace process with Israel, which has been stalled since 2014, said a senior Palestinian official on Tuesday.
The resumption of the stalled peace talks with Israel "should be based on implementing the international resolutions and the Arab peace initiative," Majdi Al-Khaldi, a diplomatic advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told the radio station Voice of Palestine.
"The Palestinian position is clear and known to all international parties," Al-Khaldi said, referring to Abbas's visits to several countries "to advance the political track and prevent any deterioration."
He called for an international front that agrees and coordinates under the umbrella of the United Nations to implement international law by ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Abbas will also seek, during his current visit to Türkiye and then to Egypt at the end of July, "to strengthen the Arab position to confront these measures taken by Israel," he said.
The last direct peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel stopped in 2014 due to differences over the issues of settlement, security, and the recognition of a Palestinian state.
The Palestinians wanted to establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel on all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. ■
