Fayyad unable to commit to 'two states for two peoples'

WASHINGTON  – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad left a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon outraged on Tuesday following a dispute about terminology to be used in the meeting summary.


The dispute followed Ayalon's demand that the meeting summary refer to the notion of "two states for two peoples," rather than just "two states." 



"I wanted that at the very least it will note two states for two peoples. I demanded to know what they meant. One Palestinian state and one bi-national state, or another Palestinian state?," the deputy minister told Ynet. "I made it clear that we were out of the picture if the summary didn’t say two states for two peoples."

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3958403,00.html   9/21/10