Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will call for an alternative to US-mediated negotiations with Israel, during a rare address to the United Nations Security Council tomorrow, according to Palestinian officials.
In a statement ahead of the visit, Abbas’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, tells state media a “new phase of struggle has started,” as they seek to protect their claim to Jerusalem.
Senior Palestinian official Nasser al-Qudwa says that Abbas would be looking to gain support for a multilateral initiative, but added that the Palestinians would not dictate what shape it would take.
“We can live with different formats, the P5, P5+1, expanded Quartet, we can live with an international peace conference,” Qudwa tells a news conference in Ramallah. “Anything that can do the job, provide a reasonable basis for negotiation and follow up the process — sponsor it until it successfully concludes.”
— AFP
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