Washington renewed its rejection of Palestinian state

Clinton felt that the only viable path for the application is the direct negotiations with Israel (French - Archive)

Renewed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her opposition to the Palestinian efforts to obtain membership of the United Nations for their state, and said that these efforts will not achieve anything now, at the time it continues to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his tour of Latin America to build support for this membership.
Clinton said in an interview with Reuters yesterday that many States explain to the Palestinians that their message delivered by the official on September 23 / September last, and requests a full member of the international organization will not give them a state, and that the only viable path for the application is the direct negotiations with Israel.
And continued "the case is being clarified that the right of the Palestinians is that the effort to join the United Nations will not reach anything in the foreseeable future, even if it came to nothing, you will not get the state through the United Nations."
She added, "So, you did what you need to show the seriousness of your objective, and you must now go back to negotiations, where you can actually start with talking about the border"
The Commission issued the Quartet for peace in the Middle East (European Union, Russia and the United Nations and the United States) issued a statement on September 23 / September last calls on both sides to hold an initial meeting within a month to prepare for an expanded peace negotiations.
Earlier yesterday, Clinton said she was "a great hope of the two sides would agree on this." In the interview with "Reuters," Clinton said she hoped that the meeting be held by the end of this month.

Abbas tourIn the meantime, the Palestinian president arrived to Venezuela yesterday, where he met President Hugo Chavez, as part of a regional tour to seek support for joining the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
Chavez said during a meeting with Abbas in the presidential palace, "I call on all members of the Venezuelan people to support the cause of the Palestinian people."
He added that "the Palestinians since the creation of Israel 63 years ago and they are subjected to repression and the invasion and bombing attacks and the United Nations resolutions against them, but the recognition of Palestine is inevitable."
The pre-meeting with Abbas, military ceremonies and official, "We have an ambassador in Palestine, Israel prevented him from entering the occupied territories."He criticized the other hand, the position of the United States "that have stymied the UN Security Council resolutions 43 times in order to protect Israel."
The Palestinian President, currently on a tour to drum up international support for membership of the UN organization, and was reached Friday to Latin America. He arrived yesterday from Venezuela, Colombia, in Bogotá, where he met President Juan Manuel Santos, who stressed that his country - non-permanent member of the Security Council - will not recognize immediately the United Nations of a Palestinian state.
Santos said "We want a Palestinian state, but this can not be the result of a vote at the United Nations or the result of a decision, and this must be the result of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because negotiation is the only way to achieve peace."
Santos offered his good offices to provide appropriate conditions for the resumption of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis.
The Columbia non-permanent member of the Security Council is one of nine votes (out of 15) necessary in the absence of any right of veto (veto) to obtain the recognition of the accession of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
Abbas will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday in Paris.

Source: agencies