Saeb Erekat, the senior Palestinian negotiator, has told Al Jazeera that any future peace talks with Israel rely on the US and Tel Aviv reaching agreement on settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and east Jeursalem.
Erekat said on Monday that, despite speculation, there were no plans for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli, prime minister, and Barack Obama, the US president, to meet in September.
"No one has contacted us on this from Israel and it depends on the Americans reaching a deal with Netanyahu," Erekat said when asked about the chances of a three-way summit on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting.
Netanyahu last week told his cabinet that he was hopeful that peace talks could resume in September if an understanding could be found with the US and the Palestinians.
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