PLO rejected the Quartet's proposal to resume talks

Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Thursday a decision by the EU and the United States and Russia to resume the stalled peace negotiations with Israel, which was scheduled to take place "without preconditions" during the month of October of 2011.
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization - gathered in Ramallah - that Israel must halt all construction in settlements in the occupied West Bank, before the resumption of negotiations as he insisted the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, while Israel has made clear that it is not prepared to do so.
For his part, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Abbas to return to negotiations without preconditions, that "the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state," which was rejected by the Palestinian President, who presented the request of the United Nations last Friday in order to obtain full membership of the State of Palestine, a move opposed by all Israel and the United States, which called for the resumption of peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel to end the conflict continued for 63 years.
This has taken the Security Council of the United Nations on Wednesday, the first step on the Palestinian demand and handed to the Commission Stradjah and evaluate him during the coming weeks.
The quartet, consisting of the European Union, Russia and the United Nations and the United States has issued a statement calling for preparatory talks in a month and substantive proposals of the Palestinian and Israeli sides on the border, security, and within three months based on the terms of reference include the UN Security Council resolutions and the roadmap plan and the Arab Peace Initiative and the vision President Barack Obama with the aim of reaching a peace deal by the end of the year 2012.