The UN Security Council will consider the application of Palestine on September 26

The UNTA Safety Council will be consultations on the issue of the Palestinian application on September 26, in the afternoon. ITAR-TASS with reference to the head of the Council of People's Commissars of Navafa Salam reports that the text of the document is already distributed among all 15 members of the Security Council. The day before, the head of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, applied for the recognition of Palestine with a full -fledged UN member within the borders of June 4, 1967 with the capital in Al -Kuds - that is, Jerusalem. Israel called it a demarche and made it clear that he was only configured for negotiations.

Speaking at the General Assembly session, Abbas said that "the goal of the Palestinian people is to realize an integral right to create a national state with the capital in Eastern Jerusalem on the lands of the western coast and the gas sector." “We also demand the immediate liberation of political prisoners from Israeli's prisons,” he said, emphasizing that the Palestinian people rejects violence and terrorism in all its manifestations. The head of PNU also emphasized the readiness for the immediate resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations "on the basis of the already approved powers that are based on international legitimacy and the complete cessation of the Israel of settlement activity." According to him, the appeal of Palestine to the UN to recognize independence and the provision of a full membership in the organization is aimed not at isolation of Israel or its deligitimization, but to the "legitimization of the aspirations of the Palestinian people." And the support of the world community of the Palestine application will increase the chances of the success of the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue, Abbas is convinced.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized that "peace cannot be achieved through resolutions, but only through negotiations." At the same time, he accused the Palestinians of "they refuse to negotiate." Palestinians interrupted direct negotiations with Israel a year ago, when Israel refused to extend a ten -month moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The head of government called for peace negotiations in this regard immediately at the UN headquarters. "We are in the same city, in the same building. Let's meet here and start negotiations about the world. Let's start listening to each other. You will present me what bothers you, and I - what bothers me. And with God's help we will be able to find common ground for the world," Netanyahu said.

On the same day, the Middle Eastern “quartet” of international intermediaries accepted a statement in which he called on Palestine and Israel to refrain from provocations and go to direct negotiations. The document says that Israel and Palestine should "hold a preparatory meeting within a month to agree on the agenda and methods of negotiations." Three months later, the parties must agree on territory and security issues. And after 6 months it is planned that Israel and Palestine will solve other important issues, and thus, by the spring of 2012, "significant progress will be achieved."