Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Palestinians will present a resolution on the settlement at the UN

The Palestinian leadership has decided to present, Friday, February 18 before the Security Council of UN resolution on Israeli settlements, said a senior official of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton felt yet on Thursday that "the Security Council and resolutions" submitted to him were "not the right support to progress towards the goal" to revive the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, suggesting that the U.S.

will veto it. An anonymous Palestinian sources stated on his side that Obama had called on Mahmoud Abbas of his opposition to the project. "President Obama, during his conversation Thursday with President Abbas has threatened to take measures against the Palestinian Authority if it insisted on asking the Security Council to condemn the settlement and request the shutdown," assured this source on Friday.

"If the U.S. administration wants to use his veto power, she uses it," said the Saleh Rafat, a member of the executive committee of the PLO. "There will affect the Palestinian-American relations if you persist in your attempts to go to the Security Council and ignore our request, especially given the fact that we have alternative proposals," warned Obama would.

According to a spokesman of Hamas in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, "this confirms the full support of the U.S. administration's policy of arbitrary government of occupation." "Those who bet on the support of the U.S. administration rights of the Palestinian people have lost," he told the. "[Mahmoud Abbas] is weak because he went without the Palestinian people to international bodies," said the Hamas leader, calling him to "stop wearing the Palestinian cause at international institutions whose decisions have become purely American.

" According to Palestinian officials, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has proposed to the Arab Group, which refused, a non-binding statement of the presidency, sending a mission to the Security Council and a reference to the 1967 borders in the next release of the Quartet on the Middle East (USA, UN, Russia and European Union).

The peace talks, briefly revived in September, are suspended from the expiration of a moratorium on new Israeli settlement construction.

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