Palestine president Abbas to make bid on Sept. 27 to obtain U.N. status.

Palestine president Abbas to make bid on Sept. 27 to obtain U.N. status.(AA).Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he will make a bid on Sept. 27 to obtain non-member status at the United Nations. “We will go to the U.N. General Assembly for consultations with our friends on the draft resolution calling for the upgrade of Palestine (to non-member status)” in the United Nations, Abbas said in a televised address. “We are going to the U.N. to say that we are a state which applies the fourth Geneva convention (on the protection of civilians in time of war). There are 133 countries that recognize us as a state with east Jerusalem as its capital and where we have embassies hoisting the Palestinian flag.” Palestinians now have an observer entity status. Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said last month that Abbas would make the upgrade request on Sept. 27 during the U.N. General Assembly. Palestinians are assured that the resolution would be passed with a wide majority. Such a resolution needs support of more than half of the 194 member states of the United Nations. In September 2011, Abbas made a high-profile effort to obtain full-member status at the U.N., but the request was never put to a vote in the Security Council, where the United States had pledged to veto it. Several weeks ago, a senior official from the Palestine Liberation Organization said Washington was pressuring the Palestinian leadership to delay its upgrade plans until after the U.S. elections in November. Meanwhile, Abbas and the Islamist Hamas group ruling Gaza on Saturday each strongly denied responsibility for the failure of national reconciliation efforts.“Reconciliation means elections, and wanting to establish an independent emirate in Gaza will not work,” Abbas said in the televised speech, addressing himself directly to Hamas leaders in the Gaza enclave. “Reconciliation will not be achieved until the electoral commission has started recording (voters) in Gaza so elections can take place three months later,” he said. Abbas also said Ismail Haniya, who heads the Hamas government in Gaza, “has no right to represent Palestine abroad as prime minister, but as a leader of Hamas,” referring to his intention to attend last month’s Non-Alignment Summit in Tehran. Haniya abandoned the plan after Abbas threatened to boycott the gathering. Hamas on Saturday dismissed Abbas’s comments. “Abbas has completed his mandate as per the law and there is no president in the context of national (Palestinian) consensus,” Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu told AFP.Hmmmm........Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States - Statehood requirements:
article 1, which sets out the four criteria for statehood that have sometimes[who?] been recognized as an accurate statement of customary international law: The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.Read the full story here.