U.S. Won’t Back ‘Palestine’ State Measure at U.N.
The United States would not support a new Palestinian-proposed U.N. Security Council draft resolution, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Thursday.
“It is not something we would support,” Psaki told reporters. Earlier, Israel’s foreign minister described a draft resolution that calls for a peace deal within a year and ending the occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 as a gimmick.
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