UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Palestinians say that, if a Treaty of peace with Israel is not reached by September their first choice is to go to the Security Council of the United Nations of such a strong support and the arguments that he recommend admission of Palestine as a new Member of the United Nations.
It would take to convince the United States ally of Israel, not an accession of support for a resolution of an independent Palestinian State, which will be difficult to put his veto.
But Riyadh Mansour, the top Palestinian diplomat to the United Nations, said in an interview with The Associated Press that there are other options to achieve the objective through the United Nations
He said that September a threat to the Palestinians because that "there are so many things." who will converge
First, Israel, and the Palestinians agreed to target the President Barack Obama of September 2011 for a peace agreement, a date approved by the European Union and a large part of the world. Second, the two year program to build the infrastructure of a Palestinian State will be complete and, thirdly, the Palestinians hope that two-thirds of the 192 Member States of the Nations United will be recognized as an independent State Palestine, Mansour said.
Obama announced in September 2010, as the resumption of U.S. has negotiated direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, a peace treaty must be signed in a year, but these talks it is collapsed weeks later after the end of the gel on the establishment of settlements by Israel.
The Palestinians insist that they will resume no peace talks until Israel stop building settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem - is - he captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which Palestinians want for their future State land. Israel maintains that the Palestinians should not be conditions framework for negotiations and that the institutions did not prevent negotiations in the past.
"Our preference, which should arrive in September is to have a peace treaty with Israel to put an end to the occupation to enable our independence and our membership in the Organization of the United Nations," said Mansour.
The United States was heading efforts to restart negotiations but Mansour said the Palestinians want the Quartet - mediation group composed of United States, of the United Nations, European Union and the Russia - to head.
Mansour regrets that the United States blocked a Quartet meeting tentatively scheduled for Friday last in Berlin to discuss and I hope that agree, the outlines of a peace accord proposed by the Germany, the France and Great Britain. A U.S. official said that a Quartet meeting would not produce any which would contribute to the resumption of direct negotiations.
But Palestinian leaders said Mansour "expressed willingness to resume negotiations" If the Quartet agreed on the proposal by the three European countries.
It calls for an immediate halt to the settlement, a solution to the question of Palestinian refugees and agreement on the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two countries and the borders before the 1967 Mideast warwith land swaps approved. It is also called for security measures that comply with Palestinian sovereignty and protect the safety of Israel and prevent the resurgence of terrorism.
"We are trying our best to open the doors of negotiations", Mansour said the interview late Thursday. "The Israelis are to choose institutions on peace."
Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israeli Yigal Palmor said "soon the Palestinians agree to resume peace talks, soon we will all be able to take steps brings us will bring peace."
The purpose of establishing a Palestinian State, living in peace with Israel, "can only be achieved that through dialogue and negotiations - there is simply no other way," Palmor said. "Unilateral measures go exactly the opposite direction".
But Mansour said that if there is no peace treaty in September, "for some reason, then we do not want be hostage to the position of Israel, or we accept that nothing can be done until the Israelis are ready and willing".
For the past two years, he said, the Palestinians were preparing for independence and on Thursday, they won an important endorsement when a meeting of major donor States in Brussels said that the institutions developed by the Palestinian Authority are now "above the threshold of a functional State."
Donors who give Palestinians in hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year, cited in the reports prepared by the World Bank, the United Nations and the Monetary Fund International.
In addition, Palestine Mansour said, was recognized as an independent State by 112 countries. Possible recognition by six other is questioned, he said, and "I hope that here September 2011 we will have 130, perhaps 140 countries recognizing the State of Palestine.".
This is important because the members of the United Nations requires not only a recommendation of the Security Council, but the approval by two-thirds of the General Assembly, or 128 countries.
"It's the end of game," said Mansour - countries more Palestinians have on their side, they may pursue independence, "" whether the Security Council or the General Assembly or combined. ""
If a right of veto U.S. looks certain to the Security Council, it has the option to go before the General Assembly, where there is no right of veto, but are binding resolutions.
Mansour said that other options is a resolution of the General Assembly similar to that of 1947 that called for Palestine divided between States, Arab and Jewish. Another possibility, advanced by some is "Uniting for peace" resolution of the General Assembly to take action if it believes that the Security Council has failed to repel a threat to peace and security.
But this option would be difficult to implement because it should prove that deny the Palestinians of the United Nations membership.
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