Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Abu Dhabi had stabbed the Palestinian issue in the back with the normalization agreement with Israel.
This came at the start of a meeting of the Palestinian leadership, with the participation of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Fatah and Hamas, to discuss the normalization agreement between Israel and the Emirates and to confront the Israeli annexation plan.
Abbas added that the UAE has no right to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people, stressing that the Palestinian position on the tripartite normalization agreement will apply to any Arab or Islamic country that does this work.
He said, "They (did not specify them) tried to delude the world that the UAE had brought us a great achievement, which was the rejection of annexation, as if the Palestinian issue was only a matter of annexation."
Abbas stressed that the Palestinian leadership considers this step to undermine the Arab Peace Initiative and the decisions of the Arab and Islamic summits, and international legitimacy, as aggression against the Palestinian people, and to neglect the Palestinian rights and holy sites, especially Jerusalem and the independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Guevara Al-Badiri said that the Palestinian President called on Arab countries to respect the Arab Peace Agreement, which stipulates that normalization with Israel will take place after resolving the Palestinian issue, not before.
"We are waiting for the end of the meeting so that we know the steps that the Palestinian Authority will take against Abu Dhabi, which began by summoning the Palestinian ambassador from the Emirates," the correspondent added.
Fixed position
Earlier on Tuesday, the British consul met with Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, who reaffirmed the Palestinian leadership’s position rejecting all the Israeli annexation plan to parts of the West Bank.
Shtayyeh urged - according to a statement issued by him - the necessity of serious international pressure on Israel to cancel the annexation plan, as it destroys the two-state solution and eliminates the chances of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
Shtayyeh also stressed the need for there to be a clear official Israeli response to canceling the annexation of Palestinian lands, to start a political dialogue process under the umbrella of the international community and in accordance with international legitimacy.
The Palestinian Prime Minister renewed his demand for Britain to recognize the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, as a "practical step to save the two-state solution."