?President Mahmoud Abbas chairing a leadership meeting in Ramallah. (WAFA photo/Thayeh Ghanayem) 

RAMALLAH, September 26, 2017 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting for the Palestinian leadership held in Ramallah on Monday night that a draft resolution is going to be submitted to the United Nations Security Council seeking full UN membership.

“One of the most prominent resolutions we will submit is full membership in the United Nations,” he said at the opening of the meeting. “As you know, we submitted this request in 2011 but it was rejected for various reasons. God willing, these reasons are now removed because we are very much interested in becoming a full member of the United Nations.”

On intra-Palestinian reconciliation following Hamas agreement to dissolve its administrative committee that ran Gaza affairs, President Abbas said the Palestinian government is going to Gaza soon to see what it can do as a government in charge of all affairs and then it will be clear how things will develop.

He said if all goes well and the government is allowed to perform its duties normally, then the next step would be to go to presidential and legislative elections, “which is very important to us because we are a democratic country.”

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