PA said handing out draft UN resolution on settlements
Abbas said set to present condemnation of Israel’s West Bank policy for Security Council vote later this month
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The Palestinian Authority over the past week reportedly distributed a draft resolution among several representatives of UN Security Council member-states condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas aims to present the resolution for a vote during his visit to the UN in two weeks, Haaretz said on Thursday.
Earlier this year, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the world body, suggested that a resolution condemning Israel’s expansion of Israeli settlements could be a first step toward reviving peace prospects, but he stressed that there should be a broader plan.
Mansour said such a plan may include the creation of an international support group, the deployment of observers to trouble spots or the convening of an international peace conference.
The United States used its veto in 2011 to block a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, and it has rejected a direct UN role in the peace process.
The council has not adopted a resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 2009.
A spokesman for Abbas said Wednesday that the Palestinian leader will meet France’s Francois Hollande in Paris later this month to discuss a new French push for peace
Abbas “will have an important meeting with President Francois Hollande to discuss convening an international peace conference in accordance with the French initiative,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
The Times of Israel Community.