High-level talks continue to avert ‘train wreck’ at UN
By HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH
09/15/2011 01:07
Ashton extends stay in region for more meetings; Netanyahu confers with Ross, Hale; Abbas tells Tantawi it’s "too late to backtrack."

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held late-night meetings Wednesday with US envoys Dennis Ross and David Hale, and a scheduled second one of the day with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, in an effort to head off what one diplomatic official termed a “diplomatic train wreck” at the UN. The focus of last-minute diplomatic fury, according to the official, was to prevent a “one-sided Israeli resolution from being adopted by the UN.” None of the parties involved in the talks are being specific about what is being discussed, and it is not even clear whether the goal is to prevent the PA from going to the UN and asking for any type of statehood recognition, or whether the aim is to convince the Palestinians to bring to the UN a resolution that Israel could live with and that would form the basis for future negotiations. Ashton, who on Tuesday met in Cairo with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, met Wednesday morning with Netanyahu, and then separately afterward with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

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