Abu Rudeineh: Dialogue and contact with US continue

 Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Saturday that dialogue and contacts with the Unites States are going to continue in the coming period.Speaking after President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry held three hours of talks in Ramallah that the two sides held intensive talks that went on for several hours over two days during which all positions and ideas were discussed.He said Abbas stressed the firm Palestinian position and that is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital should be established on the 1967 borders and that he will not accept any partial or transitional solutions nor would accept to legalize settlements and insist on release of all prisoners.Kerry said after the meeting that some progress was made but that more work needs to be done to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.He said he was working on a framework agreement that would guide the two sides in their negotiations.He said the talks he has had in Palestine and Israel since his arrival here on Thursday 'have already fleshed out, and even resolved certain kinds of issues and presented new opportunities for others.'Kerry said that he was working with great intensity to resolve this conflict that has been going on for too long.