The Palestinians, who saw their full UN membership bid rejected by the Security Council, may accept nonmember state status, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.
He said during a Paris visit that if Israel did not resume peace negotiations, “we will of course go to the (UN) General Assembly to obtain nonmember status, as was the case for Switzerland and the Vatican.”
The Palestinians applied for full membership of the UN last September but the US threatened to veto any recommendation in support of the Palestinian bid.
The US and Israel argue that only direct Palestinian-Israeli talks can produce a definitive peace accord.
French President Francois Hollande, who met Abbas during his Paris visit, said yesterday that “we must do everything to facilitate the recognition of a Palestinian state via a negotiated process.”
Direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians on a peace deal remain in deep freeze.
ArabNews
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