Palestinian President Abbas attends a meeting with Egyptian Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb at al-Azhar's headquarters in CairoPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of growth in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded by means of Israeli contract building. The advance would mark a new low level for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from either side have mentioned have made little headway. In an interview with Egyptian CBC tv, Abbas urged the negotiations would proceed although the Palestinian delegation stuck to its determination. It was unclear from Abbas’s interview when the Palestinian negotiators had stop, but Abbas said he would need about a week to renew the talks.