Article: Palestine Rejects U.N. Draft Resolution by European Nations

Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations Nasser Al- Kidwa said here on Friday that the draft resolution proposed by the four European members in the U.N. Security Council was unacceptable.

Speaking to the press, Al-Kidwa said the draft resolution, sponsored by Britain, France, Norway and Ireland at the council meeting on Thursday, did not call for a U.N. observer force in the occupied Palestinians territories.

"The European proposal does not deal in a serious way with the issue of protection and the establishment of a U.N. observer force, " he said.

"There is no way we would be able to go along with it," Al- Kidwa said.

He stressed that the Palestinians and their supporters in ...

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