U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah December 12, 2013.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has rejected U.S. proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its strategic border with Jordan, Agence France-Presse reported a Palestinian source as saying on Friday.
Following a meeting on Thursday evening with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah, “President Abbas has rejected the ideas presented by the secretary of state,” AFP quoted the source as saying.
Abbas also gave Kerry a letter laying out “Palestinian red lines,” the source added.
However, no public details were released on the content of the Kerry-Abbas meeting, which took place immediately after Kerry’s arrival in the region.
Kerry is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Friday, in his latest attempt at promoting elusive Israeli-Palestinians peace talks.
The two were to meet in a city-center hotel at 0630 GMT.
It is Kerry’s ninth trip to Israel and the West Bank since March, and his second in less than a week.
Source: english.alarabiya.net