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<div id="divNewsDatetime">Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:34AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the West Bank, Jan. 6, 2011.</div>
<div id="divLead">Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has called on the European Union to recognize Palestine as an independent state based on the 1967 borders.</div>
<p>&#8220;We are calling on the European Union to help us on the question of moving the United Nations to accept Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders,&#8221; AFP quoted Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat as saying on Friday.</p>
<p>Erakat made the remarks following a meeting between Abbas and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the West Bank.</p>
<p>At the meeting, Abbas said peace with Israel would only be possible if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Palestine as a state and halted settlements, especially in al-Quds (Jerusalem).</p>
<p>Ashton arrived in Israel on Thursday and met with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday.</p>
<p>She later met with PA caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh in the West Bank.</p>
<p>Ashton is due to hold talks with Netanyahu on Sunday.</p>
<p>The international community backs Palestinian demands for a state in most of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) &#8211; all territories Tel Aviv occupied in the 1967 Six Day War.</p>
<p>Israel has persistently continued constructing settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds despite the United Nations&#8217; condemnation of the action.</p>
<p>Over 100 countries have endorsed the Palestinians&#8217; 1988 declaration of independent statehood.</p>
<p>Among them, several Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela have recognized an independent Palestinian state.</p>
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