UN receive draft Palestinian peace plan

A draft resolution that includes a timetable for a Palestinian peace deal with Israel has been submitted to the United Nations Security Council.

The draft, presented by Jordan, calls for a peace deal within one year and for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories by the end of 2017. The document says that any negotiated peace solution between Israel and Palestine should be based on parameters including the boundary that existed between Israel and the West Bank before the Six Day War in 1967. It also proposes that Jerusalem becomes “the shared capital of the two states” and that the two parties “ abstain from any unilateral and illegal actions, including settlement activities, that could undermine the viability of a two-state solution".

The United States has previously vetoed previous UN resolutions that it had considered hostile to its close ally Israel. In October, a Palestinian peace draft that had called for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land by November 2016 was circulated informally to the UN security council but was deemed unacceptable by the US.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already sought reassurances that the US would block any efforts to implement this new resolution.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State John Kerry met chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat over the proposed resolution.

Kerry said the US had made "no determinations about language, approaches, specific resolutions, any of that".

Another draft resolution, being presented by France, is expected to call for a return to peace talks on a final treaty with the aim of achieving a two-state solution within two years.

While this second draft lays out some parameters of a permanent peace deal, it does not mention an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.