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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:57AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">US State Department spokesman Mark Toner</div>
<div id="divLead">US State Department spokesman Mark Toner has reiterated Washington&#8217;s rejection of Palestinian plans to seek UN recognition of an independent state.</div>
<p>“We don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a good idea, we don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s helpful,&#8221; AFP quoted the US State Department spokesman as saying on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The Palestinians are expected to seek a UN vote on the recognition of an independent state in September.</p>
<p>US-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinians resumed in September 2010. The talks collapsed shortly afterwards when Israel refused to extend a moratorium on settlement building in the occupied territories.</p>
<p>Israel has insisted that all issues, including the settlements, should be hammered out in direct talks.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israeli media reports indicate that Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is considering other proposals, including an &#8216;interim deal&#8217; or partial withdrawal from the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>Palestinians, however, have rejected any partial agreement and called for a comprehensive solution to the illegal Israeli settlements.</p>
<p>Palestinians argue that the settlement projects, which contravene UN Security Council Resolutions 446, 452, and 465, are aimed at preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.</p>
<p>Israel occupied and annexed East al-Quds in 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community and the United Nations.</p>
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