American team to monitor Palestinian Presidential elections

Former US President Jimmy Carter arrived in the Palestinian territories on top of an American delegation in order to monitor the elections.

Prior to that, Carter met with senior Israeli officials who stressed to him the determination of Israel to facilitate the conducting of the Palestinian elections and its readiness to answer any request for help by hundreds of international observers for these elections.

Carter said he hopes to have a Palestinian leader wins the confidence of the Palestinians, not viewed by the Palestinians as a puppet in the hands of the Israelis or the Americans.

Also arrived in Ramullah yesterday was a delegation representing Jordanian observers led by the former Jordanian prime minister Abdul Salam al-Majali. Also was expected to have had arrived yesterday the chairperson of the African parliament, the chairperson of the Belgian parliament and members of European parliaments within an international women delegation.