Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says peace negotiations with Israelis have produced “nothing,” and calls for the international community to unilaterally establish a state of Palestine.
“We convinced the international community that the best way to reach a state is through negotiations. But after 24 years of negotiations, we have not gotten anything,” says Maliki, in a meeting with British Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt in Ramallah.
In the face of stalled peace talks, Maliki calls for “active intervention” by the international community and the “imposition of peace” through the establishment of a Palestinian state, according to a report in the official PA news site Wafa.
The report says the meeting dealt with US efforts to renew peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
Alluding to the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917, Maliki calls on British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson to promise the Palestinians a state though a “Johnson declaration.”
— Dov Lieber
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