Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in US-brokered statehood talks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in US-brokered statehood talks.
 
Abbas told Egyptian CBC television that the negotiations would continue even if the Palestinian delegation stuck to its decision.

“Either we can convince it to return, and we're trying with them, or we form a new delegation,” he said.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat did not elaborate on the report of his resignation in a statement to Reuters TV on Wednesday.

He said, however, that the sessions with the Zionist entity were frozen.