Arab League chief says Mideast peace requires two-state solution

CAIRO — Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit says resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would require a two-state solution, a day after Washington signaled it would drop that demand.

Abul Gheit affirms that the conflict “requires a comprehensive and just peace based on a two-state solution with an independent Palestinian state,” according to a statement after Abul Gheit’s meeting with UN chief Antonio Guterres in Cairo.

His comments come a day after US President Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington and suggested a two-state solution is not necessary.

Guterres also called for a two-state solution on Wednesday in a speech in Cairo, saying there is “no Plan B.”

The Arab League statement says he and Abul Gheit “agreed that the two-state solution remains the real way to achieving” peace.

— AFP