Erekat told reporters that the United States had first asked the Palestinian authority to respond to the proposals before US responds to the clarifications the Palestinian authority had asked for.
"How can we accept the US proposals before we receive the (clarifications) and before seeing the details and the maps," said Erekat, adding that solving final status issued like Jerusalem "can never be generalized."
Erekat called upon the United States to answer questions Palestinians asked to be answered in relation to the proposals to reach a permanent settlement that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "There are issues such as Jerusalem and borders that can never be resolved without looking accurately at the maps," Erekat said.
He said the proposals include putting 95 percent of the West Bank under Palestinian control, but Palestinians ask "but to what extent the remaining 5 percent would affect the water resources and geographical linkage between all the Palestinian territories?"
Erekat said that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sent another letter to President Clinton related to the Palestinian inquiry to the proposal, adding that the Arafat sent more than 10 questions needed to be clarified.
Meanwhile, a high-ranking Palestinian official revealed that the talks between Israel and Palestinian officials that took place in New York for one week did not achieve any progress. The official asked not to be identified, said that Speaker of the Palestinian parliament Ahmed Qrea and Israeli minister of tourism Amnon Shahak had failed to reach a deal during secret talks lasted for three days.
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