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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/14/palestinians-pressure-united-nations-statehood
Palestinians Face Mounting Pressure to Drop UN Statehood Bid
(Guardian-UK) Harriet Sherwood - Efforts to persuade the Palestinians to change tack ahead of next week's UN meeting on the creation of a state of Palestine accelerated this week with a series of high-level delegations sweeping through Jerusalem and Ramallah aiming to avert a diplomatic collision in New York. U.S. envoys David Hale and Dennis Ross, European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, and Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair were all due to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders.