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"Mr President, if we were to ask whether we want the Palestinians to have their own state, everyone, naturally enough, would answer ‘yes’. Even Prime Minister Netanyahu is talking about a two-state solution. If the question is whether we want to reach a compromise, the answer is probably ‘yes’, too, as we know that both parties will have had to take part in a compromise or at least have indicated their acceptance in some way. Do we believe that the situation will be resolved if the international community takes a unilateral decision regarding a Palestinian state and Israel is left completely isolated? Politics, at the end of the day, has to be the art of the possible.
I do not believe that deep down we imagine that it is possible to take a decision without Israel being involved in the negotiations. That is what was stated in the Oslo Accords, and it is also what the Quartet has said, namely that both parties must be involved and that it is a question of negotiations. Those of us who are continually pleading for negotiations are clearly no less interested in progress being made in the peace process. Rather, we believe that it is a prerequisite for progress in the peace process that negotiations should take place.
I also believe that we are making it a little too easy for ourselves by talking all the time about the 1967 borders as if they could simply be there as something already in place and ready to use. The defining of borders is probably more complicated than that. That is why we need negotiations."@en1
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