Erdogan to meet Abbas in Cairo next week

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during the former''s visit to Egypt due to take place next week, diplomatic sources here indicated. Turkish diplomatic sources revealed to the egyptian official Middle East News Agency (MENA) such a meeting between Erdogan and Abbas is likely to take place within days noting meantime that Erdogan will pay a three-day visit to Egypt on Monday while President Abbas is to partake in the Arab Peace Committee meeting in Cairo next weerk. While vehemently affirming Turkey''s due keenness to support the Palestinian endeavours to get a UN full membership, the Turkish sources referred to an Egyptian-Turkish coordination to uphold and support the Palestinian position bidding for a statehood at the UN on Sept.20 . It is worth mentioning that the Arab Peace ministerial committee ,held in Doha on July 14, has officially endorsed the request of the recognition of the state of Palestine within the lines of June 4th, 1967 with Al-Quds /Jerusalem/ as its capital and to move ahead for UN full membership . Earlier Thursday, the United States has openly and formally announced that it would veto a request for Palestinian statehood if it comes before a vote in the UN Security Council. The US State Department said Thursday, "It should not come as a shock to anyone in this room that the US opposes a move in New York by the Palestinians to try to establish a state that can only be achieved through negotiations," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters . "If something comes to a vote in the UN Security Council the US will veto." For his part, US envoy to the Middle East peace process, David Hill and the Middle East strategist of the US National Security Council Dennis Ross met with President Mahmoud Abbas earlier Wednesday in a bid to prevent the Palestinians from heading to the United Nations to seek a state recognition according the 1967 borders.