Blair floats proposal to buy time on Palestinian UN bid/until Dec 28

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http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/V...aspx?id=238145

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Re: Blair floats proposal to buy time on Palestinian UN bid/until Dec 28

From the article you posted, cnav, from JP.

Quartet envoy Tony Blair presented a proposal to Israel and the Palestinians this week that would immediately keep the Palestinian Authority from taking a statehood recognition resolution to a vote at the UN, enabling the sides to continue working with the international community for a formula that would enable a return to negotiations.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that under the proposal, the Palestinians would deposit their draft resolution with UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who himself would bring it to the General Assembly by the end of the current session that runs until December 28, if negotiations were not renewed.

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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6b0a0...#axzz1Y57P91Ac

September 15, 2011 9:33 pm

Netanyahu set for UN diplomatic showdown

By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will address the UN General Assembly on Friday next week, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic diplomatic showdown with the Palestinians. He will speak on the same day that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, is due to deliver a landmark speech calling on the global body to support Palestinian statehood.

The announcement suggests that the Israeli government now has little faith in the last-ditch effort by US and European negotiators to stop the Palestinian drive for statehood at the UN. According to several officials and diplomats, Mr Abbas on Wednesday rebuffed an alternative “package” that was drafted and presented by Tony Blair, the international community’s Middle East envoy.