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Palestinians reject US push for peace talks beyond April

AFP, Ramallah
A senior Palestinian official yesterday rejected US moves to extend an April deadline for nine months of hard-won talks with Israel to culminate in a framework peace deal.
"There is no meaning to prolonging the negotiation, even for one more additional hour, if Israel, represented by its current government, continues to disregard international law," Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.
"If there was a committed partner, we wouldn't even have needed nine hours to reach that deal," he said.
He was responding to comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who told reporters in Washington on Wednesday that more time would be needed and that he hoped first to agree a framework to guide further talks.
It was Kerry who coaxed the two sides back to the negotiating table in late July, after a three-year hiatus.
"Then we get into the final negotiations. I don't think anybody would worry if there's another nine months, or whatever it's going to be... But that's not defined yet," he said.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon
said last month that he expected the timeframe to be lengthened.
"We are now trying to reach a framework to continue negotiations for a period beyond the nine months some thought would suffice for reaching a permanent accord," he said.
US President Barack Obama is to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next week when he is expected to renew pressure on his guest to rein in the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, that has threatened to drive the Palestinians away from the negotiating table.
Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot reported on Thursday that Netanyahu's cabinet had quietly begun a de facto freeze on expanding settlements outside the major Jewish population centres.
The paper said that the move was revealed to a West Bank settler leader in a conversation with Cabinet Secretary Avihai Mandelblit.
"We've received instructions from the political level not to move ahead on (construction) plans beyond those for the settlement blocs," it quoted Mandelblit as telling Jordan Valley settler David Elhayani.