The Palestinian National Authority will ask the UN Security Council to reestablish the 1967 border with Israel if direct Mideast talks fall through, the Palestinian ambassador to Russia said on Thursday.
Israeli and Palestinian authorities agreed to resume direct talks for the first time in 20 months, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week.
She said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had been invited to Washington on September 2 to start the talks. Russian, EU and U.S. officials will also attend the talks.
"We don't want to prophesize their failure. We will go to these talks with the hope that they will be successful," Fayed Mustafa said at a news conference in Moscow.
"We would like the international community to not just monitor this process but also to interfere when there is a threat of a failure," Mustafa said.
He said a failure in the talks may lead to a further escalation of tensions in the Middle East. RIA Novosti
