A top representative says the Palestinians won't stop pressing the UN Security Council until it accepts their bid for full UN membership .
Speaking in Iceland on Thursday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says if the Palestinians are rejected in their current bid for statehood, they will just keep trying.
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"A fourth time, we might lose, and a fifth time we might lose, and we'll go again until we reach a point when we will win," al-Maliki says.
The United States has threatened to veto the Palestinian bid, saying a negotiated settlement with Israel should come first.
- On Thursday Iceland became the first west European country to formally recognize a Palestinian state, three months after the Palestinians began to seek full membership of the United Nations.
"Iceland didn't only talk the talk, we walked the walk," Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson said. "We stood by our word, we have supported the Palestinian cause and today will not be the end of that, we will continue to do so."