The announcement comes after mediators of the Middle East Quartet failed to announce any progress in their meeting in Washington on Monday about how to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Abbas called the Mideast Quartet's silence 'a negative indication' of 'deep division between them'.
'We will go to the United Nations and we hope the US wilil not use its veto, but that we will go with its agreement,' Abbas said, after a meeting on Tuesday in Athens with Karolos Papoulias, the Greek president.
The Palestinian UN bid is for statehood on the lines that existed before the 1967 War, covering the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Israel, the US and some European governments oppose the plan and the Quartet had been expected to draw up a new initiative for peace talks that could persuade the Palestinians to drop the bid."
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