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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (8160)	11/28/2004 11:45:06 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Abbas: PA won't accept interim settlement with Israel By Haaretz Service and Reuters The Palestinians will not accept an interim settlement with Israel, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League during a visit to Egypt on Sunday. He also said the establishment of a Palestinian state in 2005, as called for in the Mideast Quartet's road map to peace, was possible. "We will not accept a temporary solution," said Abbas. "It's a waste of time. Even a state with interim borders is a waste of time. We're only 13 months from [the end of] 2005, so that's enough to negotiate and put an end to this problem." Abbas, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and interim Palestinian Authority Chairman Rauhi Fattouh met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Sunday, on their first trip abroad since the death of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on November 11. Egypt has offered to help the Palestinian Authority prepare to maintain security in Gaza after a possible Israeli pullout. While in Egypt, Abbas also spoke about reining in various Palestinian organizations, saying the PA wants only its own security forces to be authorized to carry weapons, Israel Radio reported. "We want only one legally armed Palestinian force," the radio quoted Abbas as saying. Abbas has admitted, however, that the Palestinian Authority is not currently prepared to take security responsibility following an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. In an interview to U.S. magazine Newsweek that was released Sunday, Abbas described the situation as "some sort of chaos, especially in Gaza." The PLO leader said "we are ready to take [Gaza] when we rebuild our security apparatus... I'm working very hard to rebuild the security apparatus." Abbas and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon each told Newsweek in separate interviews that they are prepared to meet each other. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday to talk about the disengagement plan. Abbas, who is Fatah's candidate to succeed Arafat as PA chairman, told a separate news conference that Egypt and the Palestinians would carry out previous agreements on security and training.