No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.