UN recognition

Egypt's Foreign Minister has said that his country will support the Palestinian move for UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state in September. Mohamed Kamel Amr said that the...

The Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator has denied media reports that the PA might delay its bid for United Nations recognition for an independent Palestinian state. According to Saeb Erekat,...

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has demanded that his government cuts off links with the Palestinian Authority. His call is a response to the PA's intention to ask for...

The New US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, has downplayed the significance of the Palestinian plan to approach the UN in September to gain recognition of an independent Palestinian...

Saeb Erekat, former Palestinian chief negotiator and member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Central Committee, has said that in seeking UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state along the...

A number of Republican members of the US Congress have submitted a bill saying that Israel should annex the occupied West Bank if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas carries...

More than half of the members of the US Congress House of Representatives have urged President Obama to shut down the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Washington...

Turkey has criticised the Middle East Quartet plan to revive the Palestine-Israel peace process because it "ignores the UN recognition issue" and calls upon the Palestinians to go back...

Tons of paper, gigabytes of email and hours of talking heads on TV, led up to the psycho-political drama of the unknown territory that was the application for UN...

There is no doubt about the importance of the UN recognising Palestine as a state, and more importantly its acceptance as a full member state. If such recognition is...