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Saturday, September 3, 2011
EU states divided on the Palestinian attempt at the United Nations
Sopot / Poland - The governments of the expanded European Union to reach a common position on Friday to try to join a possible Palestinian state to the United Nations this month, but it seems that the deep political differences will undermine these efforts.
He said Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindilger that one solution might be that the European Union will propose a solution for his part of the United Nations on this sensitive issue, but other diplomats said privately that several EU countries objected.
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Spindilger said to reporters at a resort overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Poland where he will hold the foreign ministers of EU countries in informal talks for two days that the Union may use its previous statements on the Middle East as a basis for a common point of view.
He told the reporters: "attitudes in the EU are very different so far.
"I hope that we can send a signal such as Europe .. and the drafting of the text may be presented in the end, the General Assembly of the United Nations."
With frozen peace talks with Israel that the Palestinians pledged to seek to obtain full membership in the UN to state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Jerusalem as its capital during the next session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in September.
Are not given the opportunity to try this little success because of U.S. opposition, which said it would use the right of veto against the UN Security Council.
The veto will prevent a vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations, but the Palestinians may seek instead to develop their status at the United Nations allowing the discussion of this issue in the General Assembly.
Has been put to vote at the United Nations of Europe in great embarrassment in light of escalating tensions in the Middle East if members of the bloc split from 27 countries into two camps supported the first efforts of the Palestinian and the other opposed.
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September 1, 2011
Palestine Goes to the UN
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), plans to call on the United Nations in September to recognize a Palestinian state and admit it as a full member of the organization. This strategy marks a dramatic shift in the Palestinians' approach to the conflict with Israel: they are not seeking to revive the moribund peace process; they are seeking to bypass it altogether.
Following the collapse of direct negotiations last fall, Abbas and his Fatah-dominated leadership launched an aggressive diplomatic campaign to secure broad international recognition of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders as a prelude to applying for formal UN membership this fall. If the Palestinian bid to get full UN membership in September is defeated in the UN Security Council—a U.S. veto is all but assured—the PA says it is prepared to take the matter to the General Assembly. Initially, the plan was to seek a two-thirds majority vote there to obtain a nonbinding resolution under the "Uniting for Peace" procedure, which allows the General Assembly to act when a lack of unanimity on the Security Council prevents it from fulfilling its "primary responsibility" of maintaining "international peace and security."
The PA has since backed away from this option and is now planning to seek a simple majority in the General Assembly, which would allow Palestine to be recognized as a "nonmember state" of the UN, alongside Kosovo, Taiwan, and Vatican City.
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2011/0830_palestine_un_elgindy.aspx
