Arab League in favor of UNGA recognition of Palestine

The Arab League has supported a Palestinian plan to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the Palestinian state.

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DOHA The Arab League has supported a Palestinian plan to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the Palestinian state. However, the organization has not declared itself on when it believed the request should be submitted. Arab League in favor of UNGA recognition of Palestine Instead, representatives of the Arab League meeting in Doha asked for an internal committee to prepare a petition and a report for the UN by September 5, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's associate Saib Erekat has said. According to reports - the U.S. and Israel oppose any request for unilateral recognition and believe that the Palestinians should achieve statehood "through negotiations". The Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2008, and the two sides have differences on the issue of their resumption. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki, who also attended the meeting in Doha, said that the Palestinians would contact all UN states individually and collectively to gain support for the recognition of Palestine. He said that the Palestinians "were not in a hurry" adding they would formally request the General Assembly to recognize Palestine "when all other options have failed, and there is no more hope for a return to negotiations." The Palestinians want their state to include the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 war. Israel has in the meantime largely annulled the pre-1967 borders by settling half a million Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The AP reports that the most that could be done by the General Assembly would be to accept Palestine as an observer country. Palestinian officials say that the main purpose of obtaining a recognition from the General Assembly would be to reestablish the pre-1967 boundary lines as the borders of their future state. (file) Beta Tanjug

Arab League in favor of UNGA recognition of Palestine

Instead, representatives of the Arab League meeting in Doha asked for an internal committee to prepare a petition and a report for the UN by September 5, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's associate Saib Erekat has said.

According to reports - the U.S. and Israel oppose any request for unilateral recognition and believe that the Palestinians should achieve statehood "through negotiations".

The Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2008, and the two sides have differences on the issue of their resumption.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki, who also attended the meeting in Doha, said that the Palestinians would contact all UN states individually and collectively to gain support for the recognition of Palestine.

He said that the Palestinians "were not in a hurry" adding they would formally request the General Assembly to recognize Palestine "when all other options have failed, and there is no more hope for a return to negotiations."

The Palestinians want their state to include the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 war.

Israel has in the meantime largely annulled the pre-1967 borders by settling half a million Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The AP reports that the most that could be done by the General Assembly would be to accept Palestine as an observer country.

Palestinian officials say that the main purpose of obtaining a recognition from the General Assembly would be to reestablish the pre-1967 boundary lines as the borders of their future state.

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