Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Thursday that the Palestinians will submit their U.N. bid on September 23 but are willing to weigh other diplomatic ideas in the meantime Al Arabiya reported.
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 Mahmud Abbas) will submit the application."
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and Thursday after holding talks with Abbas in Egypt.
Quartet envoy Tony Blair is in Jerusalem for meetings while U.S. envoys Dennis Ross and David Hale were to meet Abbas in Ramallah Thursday evening.
An EU statement on Wednesday quoted Ashton as saying her mission was to ensure that the Palestinians' U.N. bid would ultimately lead to renewed negotiations with Israel.
"I hope that in the coming days what we'll be able to achieve together will be something that enables the negotiations to start," she said.
No details of her Thursday morning meeting with Netanyahu were immediately made public.