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Palestinians to approach UN for state recognition
[Arab News] The Paleostinian Authority (PA) will present the UN Security Council (UNSC) with a draft of a resolution declaring statehood in the coming days, a senior Paleostinian official said on Wednesday.Saeb Erekat, the chief Paleostinian negotiator, said in a press statement that the resolution is scheduled to be filed when Bosnia takes the UNSC's presidency in January. Erekat added that the Paleostinian leadership is "waiting for Bosnia to take the presidency of the Security Council." The Paleostinian negotiator expressed his hope that the US would not veto the move. He added that Australia, Japan, Korea and New Zealand would recognize the Paleostinian state on the 1967 borders. Erekat said that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas will leave for Brazil on Wednesday to lay the cornerstone of the Paleostinian Embassy there on Jan. 1. Brazil recognized the Paleostinian state on the 1967 borders in early December. According to Erekat "the Israeli government is witnessing an international isolation that it hasn't witnessed before." According to other reports the Paleostinians will submit a proposal calling for a Security Council resolution to halt Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday that Paleostinians expect wider recognition of their statehood in the coming year and it will mean more than the mere "Facebook state" predicted by an Israeli minister. Fayyad said recognition by many countries would "enshrine" the Paleostinians' right to a state in all of the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, which Israel captured along with East Jerusalem in a 1967 war. Seventeen years of peace efforts had failed to deliver this promise, he told news hounds. The current Israeli coalition's stated commitment to a two-state solution could not be relied on "given the erosion that has taken place," he said. Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador announced recognition of Paleostinian statehood in the past month. Chile, Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua are reported to be weighing the same move. "These are welcome developments," Fayyad said. However, The infamous However... the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said that the US and Europe are straying from the idea of unilaterally establishing a Paleostinian state. The European Union has staved off Paleostinian pressure in favor of waiting until an "appropriate" time, while the US House of Representatives passed a resolution this month saying only peace talks could set such a process in motion. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-30 |
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