The Arab League peace initiative follow up committee will meet soon and "we won't accept to hold the peace talks while settlement goes on", Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas told a news conference in Cairo following a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The US announced that it halted talks with Israel over freezing settlement for three months outraged the Palestinians who insisted that they would not resume negotiation before Israel freezes settlement.

Meanwhile, Abbas denied what US officials had announced that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will arrive in Washington soon for holding separate negotiations with each side. He stressed that Erekat is in Washington for consultations and not for talks.

Tayesser Khaled, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, said in a press statement that the US invitation to Palestinian and Israeli officials to meet in Washington for indirect talks "is a dangerous maneuver", adding that "it shows a conspiracy between the Americans and the Israeli occupation".

The PLO official called on the Palestinians to keep rejecting any negotiations with the Israeli government before all the settlement activities on all the occupied Palestinian territories are halted, including east Jerusalem, and to recognize the Palestinian state on 1967 territories.