Palestinians Still Hope for U.S. Support in UN, Mansour Says

Palestinians still hope they can persuade the U.S. to support their recognition as an independent state at the United Nations in September, an envoy said.

“We are engaging them to try to convince them that what we are doing is reasonable and realistic,” Riyad Mansour, the permanent observer of Palestine at the UN, said today at a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “We expect the members of the Security Council to not object to our joining the family of nations.”