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UNSC set to start parleys on Palestine

Netanyahu urges talks without preconditions

AFP, United Nations
The UN Security Council was set to start consultations yesterday on Palestine's application for full membership of the world body, although a vote on the historic bid is not expected for weeks.
Security Council consultations were set to begin at the UN headquarters in New York at 3:00pm.
The United States has already threatened to veto the move, insisting that only direct Palestinian-Israeli talks can set up a Palestinian state. US President Barack Obama says the UN bid is an unrealistic shortcut that will not produce real and lasting peace on the ground between the two sides.
The mediating foursome of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia has been urgently trying to get both sides back to the negotiating table.
On Friday, the Quartet offered a counterpoint to the unilateral Palestinian bid at the UN, calling for new peace talks to begin within a month with both sides committing to seeking a final deal this year.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, riding a wave of popular support unseen in the West Bank since the late Yasser Arafat, is ruling out new talks without a "complete halt" to Israeli settlementbuilding.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday that talks should not hindered by any preconditions.
"I said in the UN, I said to President Abbas, 'Lookwe're in the same city. We're in the same building, for God's sake, in the UN. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace."
Netanyahu said he had this advice for Abbas: "If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions to the side."
But a top Palestinian negotiator shot back that it was Netanyahu's Israel that has placed "unacceptable preconditions" on peace talks.
"It wants to annex Jerusalem. It wants to remove the refugees from the agenda. It wants... everything and it wants to annex all the settlement clusters and then says, 'Let's talk'," negotiator Hanan Ashrawi told ABC's Sunday talk show "ThisWeek."
"So if you negotiate and you buy Israel time to create unilateral facts, to build more settlements, to steal more land, it is in danger of destroying the whole — not just peace process — but the prospects of peace."
Since it occupied the West Bank in 1967, Israel has built more than 130 settlements across the territory which are home to more than 300,000 residents. Another 200,000 Israelis live in settlement neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
The Palestinians, however, believe east Jerusalem should be the capital of their future state and are fiercely opposed to the extension of Israeli control over the sector.
Abbas made history in his people's long quest for statehood as he formally asked the United Nations on Friday to admit Palestine as a full member state, handing over a formal application to UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
To pass, the Palestinians need the support of nine out of the 15 members of the Security Council. Six have already thrown their weight behind the bid, seven have not revealed their decision, while Colombia says it will abstain.