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<p><strong>Maan News Agency | September 23,  2011</strong></p>
<p>GAZA CITY (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh on Friday urged President Mahmoud Abbas not to &#8220;beg&#8221; for a Palestinian state at the United Nations.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters after morning prayers in Gaza City, Haniyeh said Abbas&#8217; bid for full membership of the United Nations &#8220;harms the dignity of the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want a state but it should have full sovereignty and not at the expense of Palestinian rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;We support the principle of statehood but liberation comes first, we do not want to beg for a state.&#8221;</p>
<p>Abbas says he will submit an application for full UN membership to the Security Council after addressing the General Assembly on Friday. Washington has vowed to veto the bid.</p>
<p>If the resolution fails, Palestinians should focus on implementing national unity and using the &#8220;Arab spring&#8221; to benefit the Palestinian cause, Haniyeh said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have reservations about going to the UN because we believe it&#8217;s under American control and the political orientation for the UN is useless,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;We tell the president that you should come back to the Palestinian people in order to launch strategic and national dialogue and not to run behind the mirage.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Palestinian people have been fighting and resisting and struggling for more than 60 years, offering up thousands of martyrs, thousands of prisoners &#8230; for the sake of liberating the land,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;The state will not come about through this bargaining and this political blackmail,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Abbas says he is turning to the United Nations for statehood recognition because almost two decades of on-off peace talks with Israel have failed to produce a lasting treaty.</p>
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