Abbas has given Prime Minister Netanyahu a month to respond to the
Palestinian positions, which will be laid out in a letter to be
delivered to Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem with Palestinian
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The PA will renew its efforts to win UN
recognition for a Palestinian state if it does not receive a positive
response from Israel to its positions on a prospective peace deal.
Abbas said he would not wait until after the U.S. presidential
elections in November, which he said U.S. administration officials had
requested, before asking the UN General Assembly to upgrade the
Palestinian Authority from "observer" status to that of a state
without full membership in the United Nations.
