EU’s Ashton to Haaretz: UN vote on Palestinian state not a done deal

23.06.2011                      21.Siwan, 5771

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EU's Ashton to Haaretz: UN vote on Palestinian state not a done deal

EU foreign policy chief says international community's decision will be based on wording of UN resolution, which is still uncertain.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, says she is not sure that there will be a vote in the United Nations in September on recognition of a Palestinian state and that the wording of the resolution is still uncertain.
"It will depend very much on what the resolution says as to how the international community in general and the EU in particular, votes," Ashton told Haaretz in an interview this week in her office in the EU headquarters in Brussels….