Abbas: Palestinians Will Seek Full UN Membership

The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that the Palestinians will seek full membership in the United Nations and join dozens of additional international organizations in response to the recent US policy changes on Jerusalem. The Israeli government opposes unilateral Palestinian attempts to join international bodies outside of the context of a final status agreement between the parties.

Abbas’s comments, which came during a meeting of senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah, echoed threats the PA leader issued last week during an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation conference in Istanbul.

“There are no borders to Israel, and international law is against any recognition of it….We will go once again and many times to get full [UN] membership,” Abbas said Monday. “We are a state and an authority, and we have borders and we have the right to get the world’s recognition of us.”