UNITED NATIONS (AP) - the Palestinians say that if a peace agreement reached in September with Israel not their first choice is go to the Security Council with such strong support and arguments that it would recommend admission of Palestine as a new Member of the United Nations.
Should the United States, Israel's allies, not on membership support a resolution for an independent Palestinian State, which is not easy to convince his right of veto.
But Riyad Mansour, who said Palestinian top diplomat at the United Nations, in an interview with the associated press, that there other options to achieve the objective by the United Nations
He said that September large for the Palestinians looms, because "there are so many things that are converge."
First, the objective agreed Israel and the Palestinians on President Barack Obama September 2011 for a peace agreement, a date supported by the European Union and large parts of the world. Secondly, the two-year program to build the infrastructure of a Palestinian State will be completed, and thirdly, the Palestinians hope that two-thirds of the 192 UN Member States will have recognized as an independent State of Palestine, Mansour said.
Obama as U.S.-mediated direct Israeli Palestinian negotiations resumed, that in a year, but these talks collapsed a peace treaty should be signed weeks later, after Israel his freeze on the construction of settlements in September 2010, announced.
Are the Palestinians out, they continue not peace talks until Israel not - lands building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem it captured in the 1967 Middle East war and want the Palestinians for their future State. Israel out that the Palestinians stop not creating the conditions for talks and the settlements not negotiate in the past.
"Our preference should happen in September, to have a peace treaty with the Israelis to end the occupation of our independence and our membership of the United Nations", said Mansour.
Heading has the United States efforts to negotiations but Mansour said the Palestinians want the Quartet - the mediating group consisting of the United States, UN, European Union and Russia - the leadership.
Mansour regrets, the United States a Quartet in Berlin blocked provisionally scheduled for last Friday session to discuss and hopefully agree, proposed the outline of a peace settlement of Great Britain, France and Germany. A U.S. official said that a Quartet would meet anything produce, would help restart the direct talks.
But Mansour said the Palestinian leader "indicated readiness to go back to negotiations" If the Quartet agreed to the proposal of the three European countries.
It calls for immediate halt to settlement activities, a solution to the question of Palestinian refugees and the agreement on the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two countries and the borders before the 1967 Mideast war, with approved land swaps. It calls also security measures which respect Palestinian sovereignty and protect Israel's security and a revival to prevent terrorism.
"We try our best to open the doors for negotiations," Mansour said late Thursday interview. "Peace decide on the Israeli settlements."
Yigal Palmor Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said "The Palestinians peace talks agree the earlier resume, the sooner we all can be steps to companies that will bring us closer to peace."
The objective of creating a Palestinian State, living in peace with Israel, "only through dialogue and negotiation can be obtained - there is simply no other way," Palmor said. "Unilateral measures go exactly the opposite way."
But Mansour said, if there is no peace treaty by September, "for whatever reason, we will then want not hostage to the position of Israel, or we accept that nothing can be done until the Israelis ready and willing."
For the past two years he said the Palestinians prepared for independence and won an important confirmation on Thursday when a meeting of major donor Nations in Brussels said that the institutions developed by the Palestinian Authority now "above the threshold for a functioning State."
The donors that hundreds of millions of dollars in aid per year give the Palestinians, cited reports by the World Bank, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
In addition, Mansour said the Palestine was recognised as an independent State by 112 countries. Possible recognition of six other is marked is saying, and "hopefully by September 2011 we are 130, maybe 140 countries of the State to recognize Palestine."
This is important approval by two-thirds of the General Assembly or 128 countries as UN membership requires not only a recommendation by the Security Council but.
"This is the end of the game," said Mansour - that the more other countries which have Palestinians on their side, they can pursue independence, "in the Security Council or the General Assembly or combined."
If a U.S. veto in the Security Council looks certain, there is the opportunity before the General Assembly, where there was no veto, but resolutions are not binding.
Mansour said, similar to among other things a resolution of the General Assembly from 1947, which for Palestine into Jewish and Arab States divided be called. Another way of some advanced is "Uniting for peace" a resolution of the General Assembly, which makes it possible to take action if it, that the Security Council has failed to prevent a threat to world peace and security.
But this option would be difficult to implement because it prove would require that deny the Palestinians United Nations membership.
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