<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Erekat Confirms: Draft of Security Council Resolution Condemning Settlements Ready for&nbsp;Wednesday]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211; | 17.01.11 &#8211; 16:19</p>
<p>Jericho – PNN &#8211; Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat said  on Monday that he had been instructed by Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas to bring the issue of illegal Israeli settlements to the UN  Security Council on Wednesday. The vote is expected to be held later.</p>
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<p>Erekat  announced the date after a meeting with US Consul General Daniel  Rubinstein and UN Special Envoy Robert Serry, explaining that the  resolution would be presented by a full-member state of the UN, as  Palestine only has observer status.</p>
<p>Erekat stressed that the  policies of the Israeli government in expanding settlements, building  walls, and besieging the Gaza Strip left no doubt that the Israeli  government held the responsibility for the collapse of the peace  process. He called on all members of the 15-state Security Council, of  which five are permanent and have veto power, to support the Palestinian  resolution, which would condemn Israeli settlement-building in the  occupied territories, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Resolutions  passed at the Security Council must be executed, meaning Israel would  be compelled to stop its settlement project. But the veto power of the  United States, which has voted against all UN resolutions “hostile to  Israel” in the past, may prove to be an insurmountable hurdle.</p>
<p>Erekat  has urged the US not to use its veto power on the settlement  resolution, and said he was in direct consultation with the other 14  members of the council. The West Bank is inhabited by more than half a  million illegal settlers financed by the Israeli government over the  last 44 years.</p>
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<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9420&amp;Itemid=66">PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211; Erekat Confirms: Draft of Security Council Resolution Condemning Settlements Ready for Wednesday</a>.</p>
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