Palestine has announced its decision not to chair presidency of Arab League in its current session.

Talking to media in Ramallah, Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Riyad al-Maliki said, free normalization is a flagrant violation of decisions of the Arab summits regarding the Arab Peace Initiative.

He said according to the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002, the Arab states can only normalize relations with Israel after Israel ends its military occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories.