France has confirmed it intends to vote for Palestinian non-member status at the United Nations later this week.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France had long backed Palestinian ambitions for statehood and would vote yes "out of a concern for coherency".
The Palestinians are asking the UN General Assembly to upgrade their status frompermanent observer to a "non-member observer state".
Israel and the US oppose the move, due to be voted on later this week.
They are concerned that the Palestinians are trying to seek full statehood via the UN, rather than through negotiation as set out in the 1993 Oslo peace accords under which the Palestinian Authority was established.
Washington has warned that it could hinder rather than help future dialogue
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