Friday, 16 September 2011

JTA News Alert


September 15, 2011

Rice: U.S. not involved in negotiations over Palestinian text at U.N.

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said America is not involved in trying to tone down a draft U.N. resolution on Palestinian statehood.

“We’re not negotiating any text, we’re not engaged in efforts to water down a text,” Rice said Thursday afternoon in a briefing with Jewish journalists. “We’re making the case that this is not a productive course.” >> Full story