Olmert: `Not one refugee can return`

Source: Jerusalem Post, 30-3-2007
While the Prime Minister`s Office had no formal reaction to the Arab League`s land-and-refugees-for-peace initiative relaunched in Riyadh on Thursday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told The Jerusalem Post there is absolutely no wiggle room on the refugee issue.
Olmert reiterated that "Israel" would not accept the return to "Israel" of any refugees. It is "out of the question," he said. "I`ll never accept a solution that is based on their return to "Israel", any number."
The initiative adopted Thursday was the same one passed by the Arab League summit in Beirut in March 2002, commonly known as the Arab Peace Initiative. It is not, however, identical with the so-called Saudi initiative from a month earlier that did not mention the refugee issue.