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| PA denies UN statehood bid freeze |
| 2011-11-18 |
| European diplomatic sources say PA willing to withdraw UN bid if Israel, U.S. hand over aid and tax funds; Erekat: Paleostinians determined to apply for membership. Paleostinian officials denied Thursday reports claiming that they were willing to freeze their statehood bid at the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rightsis interesting, to say the least... if Israel handed over tax collection funds it had withheld over the Paleostinian Authority's acceptance into the UN's educational panel. On Wednesday, a European diplomat said that the PA offered the United States a deal, saying it would freeze all moves to achieve full membership for "Paleostine" in various UN agencies until the end of January, while the United States and Israel would resume transferring it funds. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special envoy Isaac Molho reportedly met secretly in London on Tuesday with U.S. administration representatives David Hale and Dennis Ross to discuss the suggestion. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... speaking to Paleostinian news agency Ma'an on Thursday, chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... called the report "nonsense," saying that the Paleostinians were determined to apply for membership." "We should stop dealing with Israeli propaganda," Erekat said, adding that the "Paleostinian government is still focusing on getting support from the Security Council." Ma'an also recorded the response of top PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, who called the report "completely untrue, and the Israeli media tools are not the source of information for the Paleostinian positions and decisions." "The report is a new Israeli maneuver and an attempt to create confusion to stop the Paleostinian bid to the UN," she said. According to a European diplomat whom the PA had updated about the proposal, the PA plans to complete the process of trying to get full UN membership for Paleostine recognized by the Security Council. PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is expected to ask for a vote by the end of December, although the move is doomed to defeat. Even if the Paleostinians muster enough votes, the United States will veto it. Other than that, however, the Paleostinians are prepared to suspend their efforts to achieve full membership in such agencies as the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization, the diplomat said. Nor will they ask the General Assembly to upgrade their observer status to non-member observer state. Though the Paleostinians offered to temporarily suspend these UN efforts, if a deal is struck that restores the PA's cash flow, it is thought such moves will be stopped for the foreseeable future. Israeli sources confirmed that Molcho had met with the U.S. officials in London, while a British source said Molcho also met with a senior Arab figure. |
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