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Palestinian Leader to Take Trump's Peace Plan to UN Security Council

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will
   come to the U.N. Security Council in February to press the Palestinian
   case against President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan.

   Abbas will undertake a round of shuttle diplomacy in the next two
   weeks, starting Saturday in Cairo at a meeting of Arab League foreign
   ministers. After that he will meet ministers from the Organization of
   the Islamic Conferenceand Non-Aligned Movement, as well as the African
   Unionsummit.

   "These consultations will be culminated in a visit by President Abbas
   within the next two weeks to the [U.N.] Security Council, in which he
   will put before the entire international community the reaction of the
   Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership against this
   onslaught against the national rights of the Palestinian people by the
   Trump administration," Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told
   reporters Wednesday.

   Palestinian resolution

   Mansour said they also hopedto put forward a draft Security Council
   resolution, although he did not go into details on what it would aim to
   do.

   "Of course, we would like to see a strong, large opposition to this
   Trump plan, and to reflect the language of the global consensus,"
   Mansour said.

   The Palestinians are unlikely to find redress in the Security Council,
   where the United States holds a veto.

   The Palestinian leadership is furious following the release Tuesday of
   the Trump administration's long-awaited plan for resolving the
   decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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