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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=201488
U.S. Against Palestinian Anti-Settlement Resolution in Security Council
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon and Khaled Abu Toameh - The U.S. is against efforts to bring the settlement issue to the UN Security Council, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday, after PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians intended to ask the Security Council to condemn the settlements as "illegal." "We have consistently opposed taking these kinds of issues to the UN Security Council," Toner said, though he declined to specify whether the U.S. would veto such a resolution should it be voted on. Toner emphasized that "final-status issues can only be resolved" through direct negotiations, though he labeled continued construction as "corrosive to our peace efforts." Erekat, meanwhile, denied reports that the Palestinians were planning to ask the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state early next year.