The Palestinian Authority must receive help in building state institutions, including security apparatuses, and to that end he said he looked forward to a successful donor conference in Paris, Akram said. He called for efforts to revive Palestinian unity, together with Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and an essential step to reach their reconciliation was for the situation in Gaza to be restored to that which existed before June 2007. Progress must also be made on parallel tracks to address the Syria-Israel and Lebanon-Israel aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Akram said the time is ripe for concluding peace, but time is not unlimited. The consequences of failure were dire -- the rise of extremism and violence that could engulf the entire Middle East, he added.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/505294