MOSCOW, August 19. /ITAR-TASS/. The State of Palestine urged the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution which would set timeline to withdraw Israeli troops from territories occupied in the Six-Day War in 1967, the chief Palestinian delegate, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee Saeb Erekat said in the Russian capital on Tuesday.

“Today we urge officially the international community and the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution which would set timeline to withdraw Israeli troops from territories occupied in 1967,” he said.

Palestine is exerting maximum effort at talks in Egypt to reach a truce with Israel and lift the Gaza blockade, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.

Erekat arrives in Moscow seeking support as Palestinian negotiators in Cairo bid for a deal with Israel on the future of war-torn Gaza.

“We’re making every possible effort to solve existing problems together with our brothers in Egypt in reaching a truce and lifting the blockage of Gaza,” Erekat said.

“It is necessary to determine a deadline when an end is put to the occupation. We hope that a breakthrough can be achieved within one or two months,” the official said.

“We know how important Russia’s role is in achieving settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, creating two states within the 1967 borders,” he said.