A State Department spokesman said today that a report from Jordan that the U.S. would allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in Middle East peace talks was “fanciful and speculative” but he did not flatly deny it.
The report, in the Amman English-language daily Jordan Times, said the U.S. proposed a plan which would give the PLO a seat at the negotiating table if it allowed non-PLO Palestinians to attend talks in preparation for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
The spokesman called the report “a blend of fact and fiction–mostly fiction” and said it was not an accurate projection. The U.S. position on the PLO is unchanged, he added. That position has been that the PLO must accept United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and publicly recognize Israel’s right to exist before the U.S. will have any dealings with it.
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