DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in United States-brokered statehood talks clouded by Israeli settlement building.

The development would mark a new low point for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from both sides have said have made little headway.

In an interview with Egyptian CBC television, Abbas suggested the negotiations would continue even if the Palestinian peace delegation stuck to its decision, reports The Straits Times.

‘Either we can convince it to return, and we`re trying with them, or we form a new delegation,’ he said.

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