DOHA (Agencies) – Jordan Times. Palestinians are determined to go ahead with their UN membership bid as an Arab League follow-up committee endorsed a final draft of the request to be presented to the UN General Assembly, a top official said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Saeb Erekat brushed off as a public relations stunt Israeli attempts to lure the Palestinians back into peace talks based on the 1967 borders if they abandon the UN membership campaign.
“The Palestinian train is now heading towards New York,” Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told AFP during the committee’s meeting in Doha, Qatar, late on Wednesday.
After the meeting, Erekat said the members of the committee “have reached a final agreement to request the full support for a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital Jerusalem”.
The request “will be ready to present before the next UN General Assembly session” in September, said Erekat.
The committee members had also agreed to “double their efforts to garner support from members of the UN Security Council”, he added.
Representing Jordan at the committee’s meeting, Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh reaffirmed the Kingdom’s firm stance to support the Palestinian people in their quest to gain their rights, including their right for a sovereign state on the June 6, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Palestinian girls mark Ramadan by reading from the Koran in the village of Salem near the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday (AP photo by Nasser Ishtayeh)
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