Sbaih: Going to UN is a Must

The Arab League's head of Palestine affairs, Mohammad Sbaih, Tuesday reiterated that there is no turning back from the Palestinian bid to go to the United Nations to seek full admission and recognition of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. Sbaih, speaking from Cairo, is participating in a delegation of the Arab League that includes Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and others, which is preparing for the Palestinian bid to the UN in September. He said the committee was formed in order to lay the text and context of how to move the Palestinian bid on a UN and international level. When asked about Israeli-American pressures and efforts aimed at preventing Arabs and Palestinians from going to UN Security Council, Sbaih said that “those pressures are familiar; the United States uses threats, pressures and temptations just as it previously did when we went to the UN’s Security Council to condemn and stop the settlement activity, since the American side has failed to convince Israel to stop them.” He added that going to the UN has become an obligation for Palestinians because the primary sponsor of the peace process, the US, is unable to compel Israel to comply with international resolutions.