Palestinian envoy: US not convinced on settlements

The Palestinian UN envoy said on Monday that his and other UN delegations have yet to persuade Washington to support a Security Council push to condemn Israeli settlement work, but they will keep trying.

Riyad Mansour, the permanent Palestinian observer to the United Nations, said that an initial draft resolution that condemns and calls for a halt to all West Bank settlements was delivered to the 15-nation UN Security Council in December. (Reuters)