“So far the positions in the EU are very divergent,” Spindelegger told reporters. Speaking to reporters at a seaside resort in Poland on Friday where EU foreign ministers met for two days of informal talks, Austria’s Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said the bloc could use its previous statements on the Middle East as a basis for a common view. The European Union has yet to reach a unified stance on the bid, although EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has insisted her goal is a resumption of negotiations.
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The US has said it would veto the bid at the Security Council, but the Palestinians may seek an upgrade of their status in the General Assembly instead which would bring the issue up for discussion at the forum.
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With peace talks with Israel frozen, the Palestinians have vowed to seek full UN membership for a state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, during the assembly’s next General Assembly in September. The support of Arab countries is crucial to the UN bid, Abu Rudaineh said, adding that the Arab League follow-up committee agreed to form delegations to recruit European support for the initiative at a recent meeting in Doha. Going to the UN will be the only way to gain our rights and to maintain our gains,” the president told senior Fatah leaders, his aide said.
“We will go to the UN Security Council in coordination with all Arab countries.
“The president will address the Palestinian people telling them exactly why the Palestinian Authority will go to the UN, and what caused the current political situation after negotiations stopped, and after the international community failed to work out solutions to the question of Palestine, and to move the negotiation process forward based on clear foundations.”Ību Rudaineh said Abbas insisted at the Ramallah meeting that Palestinian leaders would continue with the UN campaign “as long as negotiations have not started, and Israel has not committed to clear references to start negotiations.” “The president will define in detail all the political moves which will be taken before submitting the UN bid, so as to make clear where the Palestinian cause is headed,” Abu Rudaineh said. He also portrayed the creation of Israel as a European colonial project, saying "history tells us there is no basis for the Jewish homeland.Abu Rudaineh announced the upcoming speech to Ma’an radio after Abbas led a Fatah central committee meeting in Ramallah to discuss the UN bid. In rambling remarks that were part of a lengthy speech to the PLO parliament on Monday, Abbas cited books written by various authors to claim it was the Jewish peoples' "social function," including money lending, that caused animosity toward them in Europe. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian National Council at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 30, 2018. The remarks made by Abbas, who the Palestine Liberation Organization affirmed as its unchallenged leader in a convention that ended Friday, were sharply criticized as anti-Semitic and drew widespread condemnations from Israel and around the world earlier this week. "I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so, and to reiterate my full respect for the Jewish faith, as well as other monotheistic faiths."
"If people were offended by my statement in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them," Abbas said in the statement.
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