PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN URGES ISRAEL TO RESUME TALKS








TEL AVIV, March 14, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Andrei Pravov/. Chief of the Palestinian Security Service on the Western bank of the Jordan Jibril Rajub has called on Israel to resume talks immediately.


	Only talks can put an end to the confrontation between Israel and Palestine, believes Rajub, who stressed in a statement that Palestinian security services were taking drastic measures to diminish the number of armed clashes and exclude the possiblity of terrorist acts on the territories of the Palestinian Authority.


	Thanks to these measures, the number of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers has indeed diminished lately, pointed out Rajub, who dismissed the rumours that Ramallah was engrossed in preparations for a terrorist act which would be engineered on the Israeli territory.


	Nevertheless, several clashes between Palestinians and Israeli servicemen did actually occur in Gaza and on the Western bank of the Jordan last night. Reportedly, the blockade of Ramallah has been tempered somewhat, yet every vehicle leaving the town is still being thoroughly searched at Israeli roadblocks. At the moment, Israeli authorities fear more clashes in the Ramallah area on Wednesday, the day that was declared another Day of Wrath in protest against the regime of the town's isolation.