Palestinian president decides to take Trump's Peace Plan to UNSC

NEW YORK (Web Desk) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will come to the UN Security Council (UNSC) in February to press the Palestinian case against President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan. According to the ‘Voice of America’, Abbas will undertake a round of shuttle diplomacy in the next two weeks, starting Saturday in Cairo at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers. After that he will meet ministers from the Organization of the Islamic Conference and Non-Aligned Movement, as well as the African Union summit. “These consultations will be culminated in a visit by President Abbas within the next two weeks to the UNSC, in which he will put before the entire international community the reaction of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership against this onslaught against the national rights of the Palestinian people by the Trump administration,” Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters Wednesday.

Palestinian resolution

Mansour said they also hoped to put forward a draft Security Council resolution, although he did not go into details on what it would aim to do. Of course, we would like to see a strong, large opposition to this Trump plan, and to reflect the language of the global consensus,” Mansour said. The Palestinians are unlikely to find redress in the Security Council, where the United States holds a veto.  The Palestinian leadership is furious following the release Tuesday of the Trump administration’s long-awaited plan for resolving the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestine says prepares plans to topple Trump's Mideast peace plan

The Palestinian Authority has prepared a series of plans to topple the announced US Middle East peace plan also known as so called Deal of the Century. Talking to newsmen in Ramallah, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said in this regards a meeting of the Arab League's foreign ministers would be held in Cairo on Saturday. He said in the meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab states to back the Palestinian position in confronting the US pressure and dictations.