As
Palestine Sets
November 29 UN
Vote, of Dutch
Switch and
Position Paper
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 12 --
Newly
re-elected US
president
Barack Obama
on
Sunday issued
a readout that
to Palestinian
Authority
President
Abbas
he'd
"reiterated
the United
States'
opposition to
unilateral
efforts at the
United
Nations."
Monday
at the UN,
Palestinian
Observer Riyad
Mansour told
Inner City
Press,
the decision's
just been made
in Cairo, it
will be voted
on November
29.
Last
week Inner
City Press first put
online
Palestine's
draft General
Assembly
resolution for
State Observer
status, here.
Another
diplomat
on Monday
noted to Inner
City Press
that while the
Netherlands
had voted
against
Palestine
joining
UNESCO, that
was
under been
under former
foreign
minister Uri
Rosenthal,
since
replaced by
Frans
Timmermans. A
Rosenthal
relative, the
diplomat
continued, is
"a Settler."
The diplomat
said more, in
classic UN
fashion, we'll
leave it
there.
Sweden
was another EU
member which
voted against
Palestine
joining
UNESCO.
More than one
source on
Monday told
Inner City
Press this led
in part
to Sweden's
defeat for the
UN Human
Rights
Council.
Another
provided
the
Palestinians'
position
paper, which
Inner City
Press is
also now putting
online, here.
It states that
"the
Palestinian
initiative at
the United
Nations does
not
contradict,
nor is it a
substitute
for,
negotiations.
These are
parallel paths
that
complement one
another.
Enhancing
Palestine's
status at the
United
Nations to
Observer State
will establish
the right
framework for
negotiations."
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