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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will dissolve his governing body, if no peace deal can be agreed with Israel and the international community cannot approve a Palestinian state.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President, said, "I cannot accept, upon my honor, to remain the president of an authority that doesn't exist, because practically and from an international perspective, we don't exist."
The Palestinian Authority was created after the signing of the Oslo peace accords between the Palestinians and Israel in 1993. Abbas says Israel constructing settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank will lead to deadlock in peace talks.
But Israeli supporters of the settlement construction say Palestinian and Israeli borders must be negotiated according to security considerations. They say the Palestinian demand to halt settlement building is an attempt to put preconditions on the peace talks.
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