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2011-06-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestinians Want U.N. Recognition 'Even If Talks Start'
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[An Nahar] The Paleostinians will seek U.N. recognition and membership regardless of whether there is a resumption of peace talks, negotiator Mohammed Shtayeh said on Thursday.
His comments were made as the international community pushes a raft of new peace initiatives in a bid to head off the Paleostinian push for U.N. membership.
But Shtayeh said the Paleostinians were determined to seek recognition and that talks could proceed alongside their bid.
"We are by all means going to the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
, whether there are negotiations or no negotiations," he told news hounds in Ramallah, adding that he thought there was little chance talks would resume.
"We think that is not either/or -- we think that going to the United Nations and negotiations can go hand in hand and they are complementary to each other," Shtayeh said.
Negotiations have been on hold since late September 2010, when they ground to a halt after a partial freeze on Israeli settlement construction expired.
The Israelis refused to renew the freeze and the Paleostinians have said they will not talk while Israel builds on land they want for their future state.
As the talks remained stuck in a stalemate, the Paleostinians have sought international backing for a plan to seek recognition and membership at the United Nations during the General Assembly in September.
The United States and several European countries have stated their opposition to the plan, and are reportedly seeking a new peace initiative that could relaunch talks and convince the Paleostinians to abandon the U.N. push.
"We are ready to live with any proposal. But the problem is, we don't want anybody to believe that these sort of proposals are actually initiatives that are an alternative to us going to the United Nations," he said.
"We are going to the United Nations."
Shtayeh said the Paleostinians were actively seeking support, particularly in Europe, for bid to get U.N. recognition of a state on the lines that existed before the 1967 Six Day War.
"For us and the Israelis the battle is over Europe because the issue is not how many states, the issue is also quality states, with all respect to everybody," he said.
"So it is important for us that Europe recognizes Paleostine and I think that the Europeans obviously are trying to come up with initiatives so that they are not politically embarrassed in one way or another." 
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