Arab League: Contact with Qatar and Abbas on Palestinian Option Continuing  

Cairo, July 21 (QNA) - Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Affairs  Ambassador Mohamed Sabih has underlined the insistence of the Arab and Palestinian sides on going to the United Nations in the month  of  September to attain the international recognition of the independent Palestinian state within the borders of June 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.
​He said Arab League General Secretariat is currently preparing a full legal file to submit it to the United Nations in implementation of a decision taken by the  Arab Peace Initiative Committee at its ministerial meeting, held in Doha/ recently. The Committee assigned the  Arab League to submit the file to the global organization.
     On the Arab moves towards the implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative Committee's decision, Ambassador Sabih told reporters here today that the Arab League is in touch with Qatar's Prime Minister and  Chairman of the Committee HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al-Thani and  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for consultation on the options of going to the international organization and whether to go to the General Assembly or the Security Council. (QNA)