Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that Palestinian rights are "not real estate to be bought and sold with money", a day after a US workshop in Bahrain under the slogan "Peace for prosperity."
"A political solution that guarantees freedom, dignity, independence and justice for our people must precede any economic programs or projects," President Abbas told a news conference with Chilean President Sebastian Paniere after their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"Because that would create stability and security for all, and that is why Palestine did not participate in the US workshop held in Manama in the past two days."
"We are still ready for peace in accordance with international agreements, signed agreements and the Arab peace initiative," he said.
"We are ready to work with an international multilateral mechanism to take care of the negotiations (with Israel) and continue to build Palestinian institutions and empower the Palestinian economy," he said.
Abbas said that the decisions made by the American administration on "lifting the files of Jerusalem, settlements, refugees and security from the negotiating table and issuing punitive decisions against the Palestinian people proved their inability to care for the peace process alone."
He pointed out that the American decisions "encouraged the occupation government to consider Jerusalem as its unified capital, annexing the Syrian Golan and waving annexation of parts of the Palestinian territories in Area C in an attempt to impose a de facto policy of force, which we rejected and rejected by the whole world for what constitutes a violation of international law, International "
President Abbas said that he briefed the Chilean president on the latest situation in Palestine and the "grave challenges and suffering it faces because of the Israeli occupation government´s expropriation of our land, natural resources and Palestinian tax revenues without any right and continued aggression against our Christian and Islamic holy sites. A city open to all believers and followers of the divine religions to visit and worship, which undermines the chances of achieving peace in accordance with the two-state solution and the resolutions of international legitimacy. "
Over the past two days, a workshop organized by the US Administration in Bahrain under the slogan "Peace for Prosperity" was held with the participation of 39 countries and the Palestinian Authority.
The workshop aims to raise $ 50 billion in financial investments over 10 years, including an increase in Palestinian gross domestic product (GDP) to double and create more than one million Palestinian jobs.
Palestinians have been boycotting the US administration in terms of political contacts since Trump announced on December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the transfer of the embassy to it on 14 May 2018.
For his part, the President of the Republic of Chile that "his country recognizes the rights of the Palestinian people sovereign and independent and will encourage the nomination of Palestine to be an observer member of the United Nations."
"The Palestinian land deserves peace and peace. The only solution is a two-state solution in accordance with UN resolutions and direct negotiations between the two sides," Paniera said.
He noted that he and his Palestinian counterpart discussed issues of mutual concern to the two countries in "research, health and customs research on Palestinian products and free trade".
