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PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD BID AT THE UN

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Palestinian officials are planning to submit their statehood bid at UN on September 23 to join the United Nations as a full member state. They will ask for international recognition on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as a capital.
Here is a guide to what is likely to happen and its significance.
Palestinian Bid
The Palestinians, as represented by the Palestinian Authority, have long sought to establish an independent, sovereign state in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza - occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Day War.
Although Israel rejects the 1967 borders, there is a wide international acceptance that the pre-1967 frontiers should form the basis of a peace set-dement.
Late last year, Palestinian officials began pursuing a new diplomatic strategy: asking individual countries to recognise an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders. Now they want the UN to admit them as a full member state. Currently the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) only has observer entity status.
The process at UN
There are clear procedures at the UN which begins its annual General Assembly General Debate in New York on 21 September.
In order for the Palestinians to be admitted as a member state, they would need the approval of 9 nations out of the 15-member UN Security Council and no veto from any of its permanent members to pass a decision. Any Council recommendation
for membership would then need a two-thirds majority vote in the 193-member General Assembly for final approval.
To start the process, Abbas has to submit a request to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He has said he will do this after addressing the General Assembly on 23 September. Ban then needs to hand the application to the Security Council which would establish a committee.
However, the US has made clear it would wield its veto power. The UK and France would almost certainly abstain from voting. If as expected, the US vetoes, or the PLO decides to back down on its plan for full membership, it can submit a resolution to the General Assembly.
The Possible Outcome
A resolution could ask for support for the Palestinians to be admitted to the UN as a "non-member observer state", an upgrade from the PLO's current status as observer. This status
is held by the Vatican and has been held in the past by countries such as Switzerland.
This would have political implications and allow Palestinians to join UN agencies and become party to international treaties, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could take legal action to challenge the occupation of territory by Israel.
The Palestinians argue that admission of Palestine as a full member state at the UN would strengthen their hands in peace talks with Israel especially on the final status issues that divide them: the status of Jerusalem, the fate of the Jewish settlements, the precise location of the border, the right of return of Palestinian refugees, water and security.
Reasons behind the bid and the timing
The main reason is the impasse in peace talks. However, the Palestinians also argue that their UN plan fits with an agreed deadline. The Middle East Peace Quartet - the European Union, United States, Russia and UN - committed itself to the target of achieving a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict by September 2011. Last year, the US President Barack Obama also expressed a hope that this deadline would be met.
The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, says that Palestinians have succeeded in building up state institutions and are ready for statehood. The World Bank and IMF have said the same.
Recent Arab uprisings also appear to have energised Palestinian public opinion.