Abbas sets terms for resuming stalled peace talks

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organization on Tuesday that he would resume suspended peace talks with Israel if it halts settlement building "for a specific period" and recognizes the pre-1967 borders as a basis for a Palestinian state.

"When Israel stops settlement activity for a specific period and when it recognizes the borders we are calling for, and these are the legal borders, there would be nothing to prevent us from going to negotiations to complete what we agreed to at Annapolis," Abbas told the PLO legislature in Ramallah. (Reuters)