The Palestinians on Saturday slammed the statement issued by the International Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East Friday night, which called for the unconditioned resumption of the direct peace talks between Palestinians and Israel. The Quartet, that compresses the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia, called on Israel and the Palestinians to resume the stalled peace talks between the two sides within one month, in order to reach a final peace agreement by the end of 2012, saying that "the two sides should abandon 8012P Battery obstructions and resume bilateral talks unconditionally." Ahmed Majdalani, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official told Xinhua via telephone on Saturday that the Palestinian leadership "criticized the statement because it neglected the Palestinian demands of halting Jewish settlement activities in the West Bank and east Jerusalem." "The Palestinian leadership would review the statement to respond," Majdalani said, adding "but we can say that we have many reservations because it doesn't meet the Palestinian demands." The PLO official also criticized the statement because it didn' t include the conditions of getting back to the negotiations UL30A battery while talking about a time table. On Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas handed an official Palestinian request to United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon to be submitted to the UN Security Council for recognizing a full membership of a Palestinian statehood established on 1967 territories. The Palestinians would need nine votes of the Security Council in favor of their bid. However, the United States, one of the nine members, had announced that it will veto the bid. Meanwhile Israel announced that it accepts the statement of the Quartet. An official Israeli sources told Inspiron 5000 battery Israel Radio on Saturday that Israel accepts the statement "because it is balanced and doesn't refer to the cessation of settlement or an Israeli withdrawal back to 1967 borders." Abbas flew from New York to Jordan on Friday in order to avoid attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the UN General Assembly. A well-informed Palestinian official source told Xinhua that Abbas will chair two meetings of the PLO executive committee and his Fatah party's central committee on Sunday to discuss the Quartet's statement and to evaluate the situation following the A1281 Battery overwhelming international support of the Palestinian membership in the UN. Related: