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Arab foreign ministers back Abbas' UN bid for occupation deadline
Palestinian president set to present his new diplomatic plan to the UN General Assembly this month.By The Associated Press | Sep. 8, 2014
Arab foreign ministers say they will back Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to lobby the United Nations to set a deadline for Israel to end its occupation of lands captured in the 1967 war and make way for an independent Palestinian state.
The Palestinian ambassador to Egypt, Jamal al-Shobaki, said Monday that the Arab League resolution issued a day earlier calls for the head of the Arab League to push the idea in the UN Security Council and other regional and international groups. Al-Shobaki said the foreign ministers are consulting over the draft resolution to be put to the council.
Abbas floated the idea last month as a way to refocus international attention on Palestinians demands for a state after failed efforts to reach a negotiated peace deal with Israel.
According to one of Abbas' closest associates, Mahmoud al-Habash, the Palestinian president's plan calls for determining borders with Israel and ending the occupation of the West Bank within three years.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.614763
