“Despite these threats, the Palestinians have informed the Americans that we will go to the Security Council to ask for full membership of a Palestinian state in line with Palestinian interests and because this is not a unilateral act,” Erekat was quoted as saying.
He added that after the UN vote later this month, the state of Palestine will be under occupation and Israel would be held responsible – according to international agreements and conventions – fully responsible for health, education, security and other things.
“The rest of the members of the UN would be obliged to help Palestine get rid of the occupation,"
Abbas says accuses the United States of 'threatening' them into dropping their UN bid:
The
US Administration is continuing to threaten the PA that it must abandon
its plan to ask the United Nations Security council to recognize a
Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines, Chief PLO negotiator Saeb
Erekat said.