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Israel said it hoped the United States would veto any moves at the United Nations to set a time frame for its withdrawal from territory Palestinians seek for a state, but a senior US official said it was too early to say. US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Rome on Monday to discuss various proposals for a Palestinian state that are circulating at the United Nations. Later on Monday, Kerry will travel to Paris for talks with European counterparts and then on to London to meet Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and a delegation from the Arab League, who will urge the United States not to use its UN Security Council veto to block the proposals. The hastily-arranged meetings suggested urgency in Americas drive to manage efforts among Security Council members to draft a new proposal before Israeli elections in March. Kerry said on Friday he wanted to defuse tensions during the talks. Jordan has circulated a draft Palestinian resolution to the 15-member UN Security Council calling for Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory to end by November 2016, and the Palestinians said on Monday they could submit it in the coming days. France, Britain and Germany are discussing another proposal, but a senior US official said there was no consensus among them and the United States had not been asked to take a position. A senior Western diplomat said the Europeans were aiming for a consensus resolution devising a binding, unspecified, time frame and felt the Americans were now open to that possibility. There is a window of opportunity now, there is a willingness from them to consider...options at the Security Council, the diplomat said. But a senior US State Department official said Washington had not yet decided that a Security Council resolution was the right way to go. These things are all very much in flux, its not as if were being asked to take a position on any particular Security Council resolution right now. It would be premature for us to discuss documents that are of uncertain status right now.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:50:10 +0000

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