The Palestinian authorities are ready to continue peace talks with Israel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday, January 22.

“We’ll continue the dialog and we’ll continue the (peace) talks because we consider this to be the only way (to resolve the problem) but if they fail, this will happen through Israel’s fault,” Abbas said after his talks with Russia’s chief Mufti Ravil Gainutdin in Moscow.

Abbas arrived in Moscow for a six-day working visit on Thursday. On Friday, he discussed Middle East settlement issues with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Palestine is supporting the negotiating process as the only way to achieve peaceful settlement but considers Israel as the country responsible for the remaining problems between the two sides, Abbas said.

“Recently, Israeli settlers burnt down five mosques in West Bank,” Abbas said, adding that attacks continued from Israeli settlements on Palestinians, RIA Novosti reported.

The Palestine-Israeli talks stalled in September 2010 over disagreements on Israeli settlements’ construction in the West Bank. Palestinians said they would not resume negotiations unless the construction stopped.