Abbas: Seeks Israeli pullout resolution Thursday
NEW YORK - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas Abbas said Tuesday that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council on Thursday seeking a three-year timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the West Bank.
The resolution will be handed in immediately after Abbas speaks at the UN General Assembly, he tells reporters.
Abbas meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry later Tuesday and express little optimism the resolution would survive a Security Council vote. The United States will almost certainly veto such a measure, having said the only resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is through direct negotiations between the two sides.
