Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) secretary-general Saeb Erekat hailed Friday's international meeting on the Middle East peace process held in Paris as a "significant step" on the path to peace.

"The Paris meeting is a very significant step and its message is clear: if Israel is allowed to continue its colonization and apartheid policies in occupied Palestine, the future will be for more extremism and bloodshed rather than for coexistence and peace," he said in a statement quoted by AFP.

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