A high-ranking Palestinian political source said the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has recently told an Arab state leader that he was pessimistic about the progress of the peace process, the website of the Al-Manar daily newspaper said on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n
According to Al-Manar's source, Abbas said that the Palestinians had agreed in the Annapolis 'peace' meeting in the US in November 2007 to begin negotiations which were supposed to end in a comprehensive agreement in 2008. <\/p>\r\n
However, nothing has been achieved so far and Israel has taken several unilateral steps aimed at creating a new situation on the ground which renders an acceptable agreement impossible.<\/p>\r\n
The source added that Abbas expressed his fears that the peace process launched in Annapolis is likely to collapse thus leaving negative repercussions in the region.
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