(Al-Monitor) Julian Pecquet - U.S. lawmakers are threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority if President Mahmoud Abbas goes through with his stated intention to sign on to 15 UN treaties. Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that aid to the PA should be revisited, saying of the UN move, "I can't see that that was good faith." Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Granger's Democratic counterpart, said she was "extremely disappointed" with Abbas' decision. American UN envoy Samantha Power expressed the U.S.' "firm opposition to any and all unilateral actions in the international arena, including on Palestinian statehood, that circumvent or prejudge the outcome that can only come about through a negotiated settlement."
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