The Security Council, which is presently discussing the issue of Palestinian rights, will resume its debate on Tuesday. The debate, which was expected to have concluded Thursday night, was extended at the insistence of the Soviet Union whose delegate will address the Council on Tuesday.
Sources here told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that this move was coordinated with the Palestine Liberation Organization which is still pressuring the West European members of the Council to accept a proposed resolution calling. for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
The debate on Palestinian rights, which began March 31, was to have been postponed until July. The postponement, diplomats said, was due to the threat of a United States veto and the unwillingness of the West European countries to support such a resolution at this time. Diplomats said the European members of the Council decided not to endorse the Palestinian statehood resolution, pending the outcome of President Carter’s meeting with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt this week and his meeting with Premier Menachem Begin of Israel next week and the progress of the autonomy talks up to the May 26 target date.
Diplomats said over the weekend that they do not expect the PLO to succeed in its efforts to have the Security Council vote on a resolution calling for an independent Palestinian state.
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