The Palestinians Saturday denied any sort of Arab states' pressure on their appeal to the UN Security Council for establishing a Palestinian state.
The reports that Arab states exerted pressure on the Palestinians not to appeal to Security Council "are untrue", Xinhua quoted Nabil Abu Rdineh, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as saying in an official press statement.
"These reports are just malicious rumors aiming at distorting the Palestinian leadership," he said, adding that "all Arab states back our move in all the UN agencies and organisations."
Rdineh added that President Abbas highly evaluated and appreciated the Arab states' position toward Palestinians' draft resolutions appealed to the UN Security Council.
The Palestinian side, in coordination with Arab states, plans to go to the UN Security Council to demand a timetable for ending the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories and establishing a state on 1967 borders.
