For his part, Mr. Abbas reiterated the Palestinian demand that Israel stop settlement construction.
Stop settlement construction in isolated areas in the West Bank...absolutely not!
As a result, the Israelis have ignored US appeals to end settlement construction.
JERUSALEM -- During a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called on Israel to cease all settlement construction in the occupied territories.
With regard to the budget proposal for additional housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israel and the Palestinians have committed to fulfill the first phase of the road map, a dormant 2003 peace plan that calls for the Palestinians to halt all violence, and the Israelis to cease all settlement construction.
It also demands concessions of Israelis during the first phase, including that they ease curfews and other restrictions on Palestinians, halt "attacks in civilian areas," withdraw to positions held on Sept. 28, 2000, before the conflict began, and cease all settlement construction.
Defying a United Nations Security Council resolution to cease Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the municipality is moving ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes in a part of the city claimed by Palestinians as their future capital.
Abdullah told Sarkozy that the issue of Palestinian refugees must first be resolved and that the Israelis must cease all West Bank settlement construction.
These steps would be adequate justification for Mr. Netanyahu to honor President Trump's request to slow if not cease the pace of settlement construction outside the so-called "settlement blocs".
No end to settlement construction.
The Palestinians say settlement construction must cease before talks can begin following more than two years of stalemate.
