US to veto Palestinian bid for statehood at UN
Friday September 09, 2011 07:48:52 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Washington
will veto any Palestinian effort to seek a statehood at the UN
Security Council (UNSC), said the US government Thursday.
"It should not come as a shock to anyone in this room that the US
opposes a move in New York by the Palestinians to try to establish
a state that can only be achieved through negotiations," Xinhua
quoted US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland as saying
during a news briefing.
"So, yes, if something comes to a vote in the UN Security Council,
the US will veto," she said.
On Thursday, the Palestinians announced that they decided to go to
the UN later in September to request the recognition of a full
membership of the state of Palestine established on the
territories occupied by Israel in 1967 with East Jerusalem as its
capital.
The decision by the Palestinians means that the effort by the
Obama administration to convince them not to seek a vote at UN,
had failed.
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