Now Lebanon - Palestinians will make UN bid on September 23 - September 15, 2011

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Thursday that the Palestinians will submit their UN bid on September 23 but are willing to listen to other ideas in the meantime.
Envoys from the United States, the European Union and the diplomatic Quartet have been holding 11th-hour talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders in an effort to get them back into direct peace talks that stalled a year ago.
"We will see if any of them is carrying a credible offer that will allow us to look into it seriously," Malki told foreign journalists in Ramallah.
"Otherwise, on the 23rd at 12:30 [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] will submit the application."
Abbas is to make a broadcast address to the Palestinian people on Friday.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and Thursday after holding talks with Abbas in Egypt.
An EU statement on Wednesday quoted Ashton as saying her mission was to ensure that the Palestinians' UN bid would ultimately lead to renewed negotiations with Israel.
No details of her Thursday morning meeting with Netanyahu were immediately made public.
The US State Department has said that Washington would "leave no stone unturned" in efforts to deflect the Palestinians from the UN path and get them and the Israelis back into negotiations.