Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation’s application for UN membership in weeks.
Palestinians will seek recognition as a United Nations member-state in September given the deadlock in US-brokered peacemaking with Israel.
Direct talks with Israel will not resume unless it halts the building of Jewish settlements on occupied land, the Palestinian leadership said.
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/ 30 September 2010
US envoy George Mitchell stepped up the pace of efforts to save Middle East peace talks launched four weeks ago.