Friday, September 9, 2011

Palestine Is Prepared for Its UN Membership Bid; Will Ask UN on Sept. 20 to Recognize It as a State

The Eurasia Review website reports today (September 9, 2011) that Palestinians took part in a campaign yesterday in support of their UN membership bid.

The so-called "National Campaign for Palestine: State 194" is part of the build-up to September 20, 2011, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas is expected to submit a formal request that the United Nations accept the state of Palestine as a member.

The PLO committee "affirms the need to continue at the next session of the UN, the process to obtain recognition of membership for a state of Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital," PLO secretary general Yasser Abed Rabbo said in a statement yesterday.

He added, "The Palestinian leadership believes that attaining this goal will encourage the relaunch of a serious peace process and new negotiations with the clear objective of a two-state solution on the 1967 borders."

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