Abbas said in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on Tuesday that the Palestinian leadership “will request international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border and that our state be admitted as a full member of the United Nations.”

The United States set September as the time for the completion of the negotiations and promised to support the Palestinians to have a full membership in the United Nations.  Abbas said that the UN recognition “would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice.”

He warned that Palestine's “quest for recognition as a state should not be seen as a stunt. We go to the United Nations now to secure the right to live free in the remaining 22 percent of our historic homeland because we have been negotiating with the State of Israel for 20 years without coming any closer to realizing a state of our own.”

“Minutes after the State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948, the United States granted it recognition. Our Palestinian state, however, remains a promise unfulfilled,” Abbas wrote.

Abbas said that the Palestinians “cannot wait indefinitely while Israel continues to send more settlers to the occupied West Bank and denies Palestinians access to most of our land and holy places, particularly in Jerusalem.”

The Palestinian president wrote that negotiations remained “our first option, but due to their failure we are now compelled to turn to the international community.”

He stressed that “the State of Palestine intends to be a peace-loving nation, committed to human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the principles of the United Nations Charter.”