Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will try to persuade USÂ President Donald Trump when they meet next week to endorse a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel and get more assertive about bringing both sides to the peace table, his envoy to Washington said.
“We want to see him intervening, we want to see him successful and we want to see an ultimate deal,” Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the US, said in a phone interview. “We just have to know where we’re going, what’s the final destination.”
That’s an ambitious goal considering Trump has broken with more than a decade of USÂ policy and resisted declaring support for Palestinian statehood. Abbas and his advisers have increasingly expressed their frustration over Trump’s insistence that he will leave it to the two parties to agree on whether there will be two states or one state in a final peace deal.
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