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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will seek U.N. recognition and full membership for an independent Palestinian

Envoys from the Mideast Quartet accommodated in New York Sunday in a added bid to avoid a showdown at the United Nations over Palestinian statehood.

The talks absorb assembly of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will seek U.N. acceptance and abounding associates for an absolute Palestinian accompaniment afterwards this anniversary - admitting able U.S. and Israeli action to unilateral moves on the statehood issue.

Abbas said in Ramallah Friday that U.N. associates is a accepted appropriate for Palestinians.
Israel's prime abbot is admiration the abortion of the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Sunday that accord is accomplished alone through absolute negotiations.

Washington has threatened to veto a Palestinian statehood resolution if it alcove the U.N. Security Council.
The Palestinians could aswell about-face to the 193-member General Assembly, area a simple majority could admission a added allegorical recognition. Palestinians currently authority eyewitness cachet at the United Nations.

U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton and E.U. adopted action arch Catherine Ashton will aswell accommodated in New York Sunday as allotment of efforts to acquisition a blueprint to defuse the looming showdown.

U.S.-mediated accord talks amid Israel and the Palestinians adjourned a year ago, afterwards an Israeli adjournment on West Bank adjustment architecture expired. Palestinians argue architecture on acreage they wish as allotment of a approaching state.

Abbas has said a Palestinian accompaniment accept to accept the borders that were in abode afore Israel took ascendancy of Palestinian territories in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

American envoys accept been shuttling amid Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an attack to animate absolute talks and apprehend the Palestinian bid for statehood at the U.N.
U.S. President Barack Obama is accepted to accommodated with Netanyahu if both are at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

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