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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=224154
PA May Delay Plans to Ask UN for Statehood in September
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh and Herb Keinon - The Palestinian Authority may postpone plans to ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines, a senior PA official in Ramallah said on Wednesday. The official said that the PA leadership would discuss the possibility of postponing the move in return for American and international guarantees. An Israeli government source said the PA official's comments were possibly a response "to the fact that important players in the international community have said in clear terms that going to the UN is not a productive step." "We are under pressure from the Americans and some Europeans to postpone the plan to ask for UN recognition in September," the Palestinian official said. "They are even threatening to impose financial sanctions on us if we don't comply."