(NSI News Source Info) CAIRO, Egypt - July 29, 2010: Arab officials began crucial talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday to decide whether he will begin direct negotiations with Israel amid pressure from the United States.Abbas was expected to present the results of the US-brokered indirect talks the Arab League approved in May for a four-month period to the meeting of foreign ministers and representatives.
Abbas has so far accepted holding only indirect talks with Israel, which has rejected his conditions for face-to-face negotiations.
Thursday's meeting is expected to back Abbas's condition that Israel guarantee a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 war borders between the Jewish state and east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
"The issue is not US pressure, the issue is what is in the Palestinians' interests," Arab League official Hisham Yussef, who heads Secretary General Amr Mussa's office, told AFP.
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