For
Palestine, EU
Source
Predicts 15 EU
Yes,
Satellites of
US Among 10 No
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 27 --
Two days
before the UN
General
Assembly
session at
which
Palestine's
application
for Observer
State status
is
to be voted
on, answers in
front of the
Security
Council
Tuesday
morning were
as expected.
France and
Portugal will
vote Yes. The
UK
thinks the
proposal comes
at the wrong
time, but is
engaging on --
that is,
negotiating --
on the draft.
Another
European
Union source
predicts to
Inner City
Press, after
polling,
that up to 15
EU members
will vote Yes,
and that the
total of
"No's"
membership
wide might be
as low as ten,
including
Israel,
Canada, the
United States
"and its
satellites."
These
predictions
seem
aggressive,
but the source
has until now
proved golden.
In
the UN's North
Lawn building
on Monday
evening, the
Palestinian
delegation
fielded calls
asking about
the specifics
of its
"tabling"
of the
resolution.
Yet another EU
source opined
that Palestine
can't
yet table
resolutions on
its own. But
Palestine
counters that
"this
is our agenda
item."
Palestine's
Mission
to the UN on
Monday
circulated a
revised
version of the
draft
resolution.
Inner City
Press obtained
the "Rev 1"
and put
it online
here.
Back
on November
8, Inner
City Press similarly
obtained and
then
exclusively
put online
Palestine's
first draft
resolution.
The new draft
adds the term
"non-member"
in the
Operative
Paragraphs,
and
moved the
recognition of
132 states out
of the
Operative
Paragraphs.
It adds the
issue of
prisoners.
This is not
what the UK is
driving
for. Watch
this site.
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