Ramallah, Sept 9 (ANI): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that it is "too late" for American and other international powers to prevent Palestinians from applying for membership in the United Nations this month.
"To be frank with you, they came too late," The New York Post quoted Abbas, as saying.
The international powers had "wasted all the time" since the beginning of the year, and even now, less than two weeks before the prospective bid at the United Nations, they still had not produced any concrete proposal, he added.
Abbas was speaking after meeting in recent days with two senior American diplomats, David Hale and Dennis Ross, and Tony Blair, the envoy of the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers that includes the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. He said he had also spoken by telephone with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week.
The United States has vowed to veto a vote on Palestinian statehood at the Security Council, saying that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be resolved only through direct negotiations.
Abbas said that if the quartet produced a package to pave the way back to negotiations that included an Israeli freeze on settlement construction and the use of the pre-1967 lines with agreed land swaps as the basis for talks on borders, both longstanding Palestinian demands, the Palestinians "will go to the United Nations and we will return back to talks," the paper added. (ANI)
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