Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that he was confident a peace conference this week in Bahrain would fail.
"We are certain that the workshop in Manama will not be successful," Abbas, who is boycotting the US-led conference focused on the PA economy, told journalists, according to AFP.
"We will not be slaves or servants for Greenblatt, Kushner and Friedman," Abbas told journalists at his presidential office in Ramallah, referring to US President Donald Trump's negotiating team, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
"We need the economic (support), the money and the assistance, but before everything there is a political solution. For America to turn the whole cause from a political issue into an economic one, we cannot accept this," he charged.
The US government on Saturday unveiled the economic part of its peace plan that it will present in Bahrain on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The plan aims to raise more than $50 billion for the PA and create one million jobs for its residents within a decade.
