Secretary-General Saeb Erekat of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee said, Tuesday, "The Manana Economic Workshop, which coincides with the Arab Finance Ministers' emergency meeting in Cairo and the Pledging Conference for UNRWA in New York, and the released US Economic Plan are only a deviation from the fundamental political solution that necessitates ending Israel's 52 years- long military occupation, and a just solution to Palestinian refugees in accordance to UNGA resolution 194."
The Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator concluded, "Such inciting campaigns aim at making the people and leadership of Palestine accept the dictations, threats, and tyranny of both the US and Israel - and they are doomed to fail. The Palestinian people have the right to live in freedom, dignity, peace, and security- and we are committed to defending our inalienable rights, mainly our right to self-determination, and Palestine's right to exist."