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Credit: Reuters/Darren Whiteside By Arshad Mohammed NEW YORK | Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:36pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A last-ditch international push began in New York on Sunday to try to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and avert a crisis over Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. Officials met two days after President Mahmoud Abbas said he would demand full membership of the world body for a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week, setting up a diplomatic clash with Israel and the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Asked before the meeting if either could report any progress, Clinton replied, "We are meeting to talk about the way forward." Asked if that meant no progress, she said, "I didn't say that." Senior diplomats from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators -- also met on Sunday, an EU official said, as part of an intense effort in recent weeks to persuade the Palestinians to drop their U.N. plans. The official said the diplomats were assessing the situation, but had no further details. Washington and Israel say a U.N. vote over Palestinian statehood would damage chances for peace negotiations, arguing that a state can only be created through a settlement between the two sides. But in a televised speech on Friday, Abbas said he would request the Palestinians' "legitimate right, obtaining full membership for Palestine." The Palestinians say almost 20 years of on-off direct talks on statehood envisaged by interim peace accords have hit a dead end. The United States says it will veto in the Security Council a Palestinian application for full U.N. membership, but former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who serves an envoy for the Quartet, said on Sunday a showdown could still be averted. "What we will be looking for over the next few days is a way of putting together something that allows their claims and legitimate aspirations for statehood to be recognized whilst actually renewing the only thing that's going to produce a state, which is a negotiation directly between the two sides," he told the ABC television program "This Week." TIMEFRAME The Quartet has for months been trying to put together guidelines for future peace talks, but so far without being able to agree on key details. Blair said the proposed framework sets out "where we want to go on issues like borders ... And I think what's going to be really important is also to give some sense of a timeframe, a timeline, if you like, for a successful negotiation." The last round of the U.S.-backed talks between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu collapsed nearly a year ago. The Palestinians pulled out after Israel declined to extend a partial moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank on land the Palestinians want for their state. The Palestinians say they will not resume talks unless the moratorium is reinstated. Israel says talks should resume without preconditions but that it accepts the idea that the Palestinians should ultimately have their own state. U.S. President Barack Obama is under pressure from Congress to back Israel's stance. House speaker John Boehner, a Republican, told a Jewish group in Cincinnati on Sunday the U.S. commitment to Israel "should be stronger than it's ever been." Apart from borders, key points of contention include the status of Jerusalem, the future of Palestinian refugees and whether Israel should be acknowledged as a Jewish state. (Writing by Patrick Worsnip; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Eric Walsh) World United Nations Israel Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (2) TheUSofA wrote: Either you are a true democracy or, you are an ethnocracy with strong religious fundamentalist leanings. It’s no secret that the forever ongoing illegal settlement building that Israel promotes and funds is lead by religious zealots. The radical ‘settlers’ believe that god gives them the right to ALL of the land. I would love to see interviews from those illegal settlements. But that is in fact why we don’t see much about those settlers or those illegal settlements. Sep 18, 2011 4:17pm EDT -- Report as abuse JRDKidd wrote: NOW IS THE TIME FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO WRITE HISTORY! In 1947 the then United Nations voted for Palestine to be wiped off the map and replaced by two states, one Arab and one Israeli. However, all those Arab states of the Muslim Middle East, affected, refused to accept a Jewish state in their midst implemented – by a United Nations that was interested in finding a home for hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, victims of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe. (The operative words being ‘IN EUROPE’). Their protests were totally ignored and in 1948, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and LEHI terrorist organizations implemented the UN resolution with the support of America. Britain abstained. The killings of this time and the subsequent killings of civilians have never been properly investigated and no minister or soldier has yet been brought before the courts to face justice. For 63 years this terrible injustice has pertained, with the now 5 million descendants of the 3/4 million originally dispossessed, indigenous people, living under the iron fist of a cruel, oppressive regime that is still supported by a United States congress that is in hock to a powerful minority pressure group that exerts undue pressure upon the American legislature. In this 21st century, surely it is now time that these wrongs are redressed, that those guilty of war crimes are brought to justice, and that the state of Palestine is restored as a home for the five million people whose families have been the majority continuous indigenous people of this land for over a millennium. President Obama should not follow his predecessors and flinch from this historic challenge: He has the opportunity, this week, to right the wrongs of history. __________________________________ Sep 18, 2011 4:25pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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