Palestinian Crisis Dominates UN Meeting

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Diplomats mixed on Thursday, head out of a confrontation over plans to seek recognition of the United Nations for the entire small visible sign of progress and the deadline less than 24 hours away the Palestinians'.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad briefly took the spotlight at the UN General Assembly, the United States accuses of using the September 11, 2001 as a pretext to attack Iraq and Afghanistan and denounces Western support for Zionism.

But attention has focused on the crisis transfixing UN meeting this year. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to submit your request to the Security Council of the United Nations on Friday, despite U.S. pressure President Barack Obama to renounce the option of the United Nations and to resume direct negotiations with Israel.

Obama meeting with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday ended without a breakthrough, Stark showing new boundaries of U.S. influence in the spinning process in unpredictable directions.

Obama, whose personal efforts to restart the peace process in the Middle East have proved fruitless, on Wednesday announced that direct talks were the only way a Palestinian state unyielding focus on the United States opposes the UN plan .

Obama said the U.S. will oppose any movement of Palestinians in the Security Council - a step that would allow Washington to isolate his partner of Israel in a time of unprecedented political crisis in the region.

"We are aware that the Palestinian people feel like they have waited a very long time, and too much time for their own state. We want to help them achieve this state as quickly as possible," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, U.S. told NPR radio.

"But the bottom line is there is no way to accomplish this short of both parties will return to the negotiating table," Rice said, calling the offer of the UN Palestinian "unwise and against-productive ".

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had his own meetings with Abbas and Netanyahu, said the U.S. continue to push for lasting peace and negotiated.

"Whatever happens tomorrow at the UN, we remain focused on the following day," Clinton told reporters.

AT realities

What will happen to the Palestinians of the United Nations remain in Israeli occupation and lack of recognized borders nominal or real independence and sovereignty.

The cash-strapped Palestinians are facing their own political boundaries, and can also lead to economic sanctions Israel and the United States, which could impede their efforts to build a framework of government for their country.

But the West Bank, Palestinians gathered this week to support the UN plan, with anger and disappointment of many express more than two decades of failed U.S. policy, the policy of peace.

United Nations, diplomats focused on several scenarios, which they hope can contain the damage when Abbas made his request, as most expect it.

The Security Council could delay action on a request from Abbas, a mediator, "the Quartet" - United States, Russia, European Union and the United Nations - more time to make a statement that could bring the two sides to the table.

But the quartet not be able to agree on a statement that satisfies both the Israelis and the Palestinians, who remain divided on core issues like borders, the status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the future of Jewish settlements.

A senior U.S. official said the Quartet envoys met for several hours on Thursday.

Another option, proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would see the Palestinians to go to the General Assembly, which could vote for the upgrade 'community' the Palestinians is a "third state", and revive peace talks directly.

Nicolas Sarkozy's plan calls for negotiations to begin in a month, an agreement on borders and security in six months and a final peace agreement within a year.

Assembly of the route would require only a simple majority of the 193-nation body, not two-thirds majority necessary for full political independence.

What remains clear, however, if the Palestinians insist on the right to withdraw the Israeli government or its officials in court for war crimes or continue in other locations worldwide - something Israel opposes.

The Palestinians have promised to support the candidacy of the Security Council, while keeping the option open meeting.

Political theater

Ahmadinejad - who arrived in New York this year, weakened by a power struggle at home isolated - has accused Western powers of various crimes, and again questioned September 11, 2001 attacks, "mysterious."

In what became a regular political theater, took the United States and other Western delegations of the General Assembly Hall during his speech.

Even if you did not mention Tehran's controversial nuclear program in his UN speech, Ahmadinejad said later that Iran would cease to produce 20 percent of uranium, if it is guaranteed to fuel the reactor for medical research, looking to revive a lot of fuel to change that broke up in 2009.

"Every time we can ensure that the sale ... we will stop the enrichment of 20 percent," he said, but deeply skeptical about the nuclear intentions of western Iran would probably delay any possible resumption of talks.

Leader of Iran, which previously has called Israel a "tumor" that must be wiped off the map, only made a reference to the Palestinian issue in his speech at the United Nations, and had to comment on the offer for the recognition of United Nations the Palestinians'.

(For more information about reporting Arshad Mohammed, John Ireland, Louis Charbonneau, Patrick Worsnip, Alistair Lyon and Tom Perry, Editing by Xavier Briand)

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