A senior Palestinian official says the Palestinians have not been invited to next week's Mideast conference in Poland and have no desire to participate unless the U.S. changes its policies.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Wednesday that current American policies will "only lead to futile results."
The U.S. and Poland are sponsoring the Feb. 13-14 conference, which they say is aimed at promoting peace and security in the region. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans on attending.
The Palestinians accuse the Trump administration of being unfairly biased in favor of Israel. They say they will reject a planned U.S. peace initiative unless it endorses an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he hopes the Warsaw conference will allow the world to see "the enormous coalition that is prepared to assist in creating stability and peace here in the Middle East."
"We'll work on many issues including how it is we can get the Islamic Republic of Iran to behave more like a normal nation," he said
