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Thursday, 08 Sep 2011 03:25 PM


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will veto any bid by the Palestinians to seek statehood recognition at the U.N. Security Council.

The administration had long said it opposed such a unilateral move by the Palestinians. The United States has been working to prevent a Palestinian resolution from coming before the council.

Until now, Washington had not explicitly said it would use its veto to prevent passage. On Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that if the issue comes to a vote in the Security Council, the U.S. will veto it.

Israel opposes the statehood push as well.

Nuland says the U.S. view is that the Palestinian effort is misguided and that statehood should come only as a result of negotiations with Israel.

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Perhaps this will get the UN out of the USA and right next to our embassy in Iraq. Which is 12 miles from the orginal Babyon.

Sincerely, I expect a breaking news in the next 48 hours from around the world.

There is persistent chatter about a Greek default over the weekend

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Ban: Palestinian statehood is for UN members to decide
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=237290


By REUTERS
09/09/2011 03:53

UN chief reaffirms support for an independent Palestinian state; says US president Obama has set down a good framework for peace talks.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reaffirmed his support for an independent Palestinian state on Friday but said Palestinian UN membership was an issue for member states to decide.

The United States for the first time on Thursday said explicitly it would use its veto in the Security Council to stop any Palestinian bid for full UN membership if the matter went ahead at the next General Assembly, which opens on Sept. 19.

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Ban, winding up a trip to Australia and the South Pacific, said he strongly supported a two-state solution where Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in peace and security.

"I support also the statehood of Palestinians, an independent sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue," Ban told reporters in Canberra before he left Australia.

He said US President Barack Obama had set down a good framework for peace negotiations, but said it was up to the UN member states to decide on UN membership and recognition of a Palestinian state.

"So I leave it to the member states to decide whether to recognize or not recognize," he said.



Representatives of various Palestinian factions on Thursday delivered a letter to Ban in support of accepting a Palestinian state as a full member of the UN, seemingly kicking off the PA’s September UN maneuver.

Palestinian Authority officials denied that the letter was an official request to the UN to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines. They said that the factions decided to deliver the letter as part of a popular campaign in support of the statehood bid.