MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Palestine wants a new draft resolution on setting up a Palestinian state to be submitted to the UN Security Council, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said.
"We would like to return there [the UN Security Council] with certain demands, but we need guarantees for that. We should create an atmosphere and climate that would facilitate our address to the UN Security Council and make us certain that it would adopt a resolution," al-Maliki told journalists on Thursday.
France has provided Palestine with a blueprint of such a resolution, he said.
"We proposed our remarks to them, and the French are now preparing to pass this draft to the UN," he said.
A special commission dealing with the Palestinian people's rights comprised of four Arab states, including Egypt, has been set up, he said.
The draft concerns options for resuming negotiations on settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and setting up a supervisory committee to monitor the negotiations, he said.
The committee would also observe steps to be taken by the parties to reach an agreement, he said.