Ramallah: The Palestinian leadership rejected comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the deadline for peace negotiations to start set by the Mideast Quartet.
Commenting on the Quartet's deadline, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that according to Israel the timeframe for negotiations should be extended to April 3, three months after Israelis and Palestinians sat down for their first face to face meeting in Amman on January 3.
The orginal deadline set by the quartet to start negotiations was January 26.
"Time extension is useless. Israel doesn't appear to be serious, so time extension will not add any value to the status quo," Jamal Muhaisan, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, told Gulf News.
"We are sticking to the 26 deadline and once it passes we will confer with our Arab brothers on the next course of action," he added.
