(18.4.2016) President of the State Palestine Mahmoud Abbas (retranslated): Thank you, Mr President, It is a great pleasure to be here, particularly at this time when important Middle East problems and security issues are being resolved. As you just said, we are making active efforts to achieve a settlement with Israel on the basis of the principle of two states existing within the 1967 borders, and a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.