When the Arab League meets this week, President Mahmoud Abbas will present Palestine's UN bid to foreign ministers for discussion, officials said Sunday night Maan reported
Arab League envoys are convening on Monday and Tuesday, ahead of the 138th regular meeting of Arab foreign ministers during the following two days.
Palestinian ambassador to Egypt and representative to the Arab League Barakat al-Farra told Ma'an that meetings kicking off on Monday would hold a session called the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Arab representatives will discuss Israeli practices in Jerusalem, settlement activities, the separation wall, the situation of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA's aid, development and support to the Palestinian Authority's budget, according to al-Farra.
Abbas and Egyptian president Muhammad Mursi will attend Wednesday's foreign ministers meeting, he said.
Abbas will update the meeting on latest developments with Palestine's bid for a membership upgrade at the United Nations, as well as new findings regarding the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, the envoy added.
PA foreign minister Riyad al-Malki reiterated in a statement on Sunday that the government was still waiting for the Arab League meeting to discuss the timing of the bid, which has yet to be decided.
Earlier the foreign minister had indicated that the PA would ask to be made a non-member observer state at the UN General Assembly in September.
A previous bid for full UN membership stalled at the Security Council last year.
A simple majority vote in the 193-member General Assembly would be enough to bestow non-member observer status, bypassing the Security Council -- where the United States, Israel's ally, has a veto.
Such status, akin to the Vatican's, would be an indirect recognition of Palestinian statehood in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. It would allow Palestine to join a number of UN agencies, as well as the International Criminal Court.