RAMALLAH: Palestine's envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, said that it is "making all possible efforts" to obtain full membership of the world body to protect the two-state solution.
Mansour told the official Voice of Palestine radio station that the Palestinian mission "is striving to persuade the biggest number of Arab and European countries in order for this endeavour not to be impeded by the use of any veto."
President Mahmoud Abbas brought up the subject with his US counterpart Joe Biden during the latter's visit this month, as well as with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman earlier this week and with French President Emmanuel Macron when they met in Paris last week, Riyad Mansour said. He cautioned that Israeli activities, particularly the development of numerous settlements in the Palestinian territory, continue to pose a threat to the two-state solution.
The Palestinian went on to say, "If the UN Security Council accepts Palestine's full membership, it will be a big practical step in defending the two-state solution to end the Israeli occupation." The US-sponsored final round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended in failure in 2014, partly as a result of disagreements over settlement issues.
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