Terms of talks with Israel must 'radically change': PLO

The basis of future peace talks with Israel must change, a Palestinian official said today, after Israel's chief negotiator said a planned release of Palestinian prisoners would not take place.

"Israel has a habit of evading agreements and conventions it has signed," Yasser Abed Rabbo, general secretary of the PLO executive committee told AFP.

"That is why conditions for future negotiations must change radically.