Nabil Shaath: \'UN bid to allow lawsuit against Israel\'

The Palestinian Authority hopes to upgrade Palestine\'s UN status to that of a \"non-member observer state\" in order to be able to sue Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, said Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Shaath on Saturday. The Palestinians are to ask the United Nations to upgrade their status to become a \"non-member observer state\" by the end of 2012. In September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the PLO, sought full member-state status at the UN based on pre-1967 frontiers. But the bid effectively stalled two months later after Security Council members said they had been unable to \"make a unanimous recommendation\".