Abbas claimed to be deciding to declare end of Oslo

Acting head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is claimed to be deciding to tell the upcoming UN General Assembly that the PA is no longer bound by the Oslo Accords due to Israel's lack of commitment to the 1993 agreement.

PLO Executive Committee member Ahmad Majdalani told Ma'an that the decision to no longer abide by Oslo II was drafted by a preparatory committee for the upcoming Palestine National Council (PNC) meeting and will likely be approved during the session scheduled for Sept. 14-15.

He said the move was based on agreements reached by PLO factions during previous Central Council meetings.

“The Palestinian leadership has decided to terminate the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip known as the Oslo Accords II, which was signed in Taba on September 28, 1995,” Majdalani said.

Future moves will be prepared by a PNC committee, he added, without providing further details.

The official provided no indication of what would become of security coordination between the PA and Israel, a key requirement of Oslo, although he said that Abbas in Ramallah has decided to make the PNC a Palestinian parliament and the PLO Executive Committee a Palestinian government.

The Oslo Accords were the first time Israel and the PLO officially recognized each other and stipulated the creation of an interim Palestinian government -- the Palestinian Authority -- to negotiate a framework for full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank by 1998.