Israel has agreed to a long-standing Palestinian demand the release of Palestinian prisoners, in order to resume peace talks, but does not produce such core issues, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Saturday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Israel and the Palestinians have been deadlocked for nearly three years after the resumption of peace talks laid the foundation, but he warned that the deal is not final, more diplomacy.
"There will be some of the release of prisoners," Steinitz told Israel Radio. "I do not want to give the phone number, but there will be heavyweight who has been in prison for decades prisoners," he said. He added that the release will be carried out in stages.
Palestinians have long demanded Israel free man had been prisoners held in Israeli prisons, because in 1993, before this year, the two sides signed the "Oslo Accords" - interim deal was designed to create an independent state, the Palestinians in East Jerusalem , the West Bank and Gaza Strip sought.
However, when it came to other sticking point, Steinitz said that Israel will not give way.
Palestinian, international support, have expressed their future state negotiations must have borders before approaching the boundaries of the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war them.
Israel has rejected the request, saying that the Jewish state's borders would be indefensible. Steinitz said there had been at this point no Israeli concessions and the Palestinians demanded that Israel halt in the West Bank and East Jerusalem settlement construction.
"There is no chance that we will agree to enter any negotiations begin to define territorial boundaries or Israeli concessions, nor is the construction freeze."
WASEL umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, a senior member of Abu Yusuf told Reuters on Friday, Kerry announced that "will continue to strive to achieve the requirements of the Palestinians after Israel must recognize the 1967 borders."
Kerry said on Friday that Israel and the Palestinians are still transactions between "formal" and therefore, he will not discuss it in detail, but the negotiations were likely "in the next week or so, held talks in Washington. "
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