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Abbas: Palestinians will resubmit statehood resolution

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinians will resubmit a statehood resolution to the United Nations Security Council. “We will go back to the Security Council until it recognizes our rights,” Abbas said Sunday in Ramallah, in the West Bank, Reuters reported.

Jordan, which submitted the resolution that was defeated last week in the Security Council, will remain a member of the council. Several countries seen as more sympathetic to the resolution were rotated on to the body at the beginning of the year. Abbas signed 20 international treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, following the resolution’s defeat.

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