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del.icio.us Digg It!  new U.S. takes back UN draft due to Israel's objections By Haaretz Correspondents and AP , By Shlomo Shamir and Avi Issacharoff Tags: Peace Talks, Annapolis Summit  The United States on Friday withdrew a UN Security Council draft resolution endorsing the Israeli-Palestinian Annapolis agreement after Israeli leaders objected to it. The move came just a few hours before the Security Council was to vote on the resolution. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer for Palestine to the UN, also objected to the U.S. resolution, on the grounds that some of its articles did not fully express the position of the Palestinian Authority. The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, first brought up the resolution in a closed-door Security Council session on Thursday. Afterward he told reporters that his fellow diplomats had expressed support for it. Advertisement Qatar's UN Ambassador, Nassir Al-Nasser, the only Arab member of the Security Council, also praised it. But Khalilzad failed to coordinate his initiative with the Israeli delegation or to inform Mansour about his intentions ahead of time. Israel's deputy UN ambassador, Daniel Carmon, said Friday that the Security Council was not the appropriate venue for adopting the Annapolis resolutions because it includes countries unsympathetic to Israel. The Security Council did not issue an official response to the Annapolis summit. Indonesian UN Ambassador Marty Natalegawa, the current president of the Security Council, met with reporters on Friday and spoke in favor of the agreements reached in Annapolis. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday in Cairo that Israel and the Palestinians will meet for talks in Paris and Moscow. On December 17 the donor nations will meet in Paris, where they are expected to agree to transfer a few billion dollars to the PA. Moscow is to be the venue in January for a conference aimed at monitoring the progress on the Palestinian track and facilitating the Israel-Syria track. Abbas said a special team headed by former PA prime minister Ahmed Qureia will lead the negotiations with Israel, which are due to begin on December 12. "There was this myth that there were talks or a deal" in Annapolis, Abbas said, but "the purpose of the Annapolis meeting was to launch talks without going into details." Abbas said a "supreme committee of all Palestinian leadership" will be formed to follow up negotiations. Bookmark to del.icio.us Big heart The organs of an IDF soldier were donated to five people in Israel and Germany. Settler harassment Palestinians in the West Bank said settlers threw stones at a boy and stole his donkey.

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