May 29, 2011 8:49 PM

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Arab League decides to seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state

The Arab League decided to seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.The Arab League's peace process committee said in a statement in Doha that it would request membership for the state of Palestine at the U.N. General Assembly's meeting in New York in September. The statement added that committee will go to the United Nations to request full membership for Palestine on the 1967 borders.In his speech, the Palestinians president Mahmoud Abbas told in Doha meeting that Netanyahu's ideas for peace had put more obstacles in the path of an already moribund peace process. He said there are no shared foundations for peace talks with Netanyahu and seeking U.N. recognition is his only option.U.S.-brokered talks between the Palestinians and Israel broke down in September last year on the issue of Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

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