CRI听力:Palestine to Resubmit to the UN Security Council: Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he's discussing plans with officials from Jordan to resubmit a resolution on Palestinian statehood to the United Nations Security Council.

The resolution failed last week due to a lack of enough votes.

Abbas says there will be no let up on Palestinian efforts to gain membership.

"We didn't fail. The U.N. Security Council failed us. We'll go again to the Security Council. Why not? Perhaps after a week. We are studying it and we will study this with our allies and especially Jordan."
Several new temporary members joined the UN Security Council at the start of the new year, and the Palestinians hope these states will be more sympathetic to their resolution demanding an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, and independence by 2017.

In the previous U.N. vote, the Palestinian draft received eight votes in favour, two against and five abstentions.

The draft will only be passed if it wins at least 9 votes in favour from the Security Council member countries.

But any resubmission would face almost certain failure.

The U.S., which has veto power and voted against the measure, has pledged to block Abbas' plan, describing it as one-sided and uNPRoductive.