Standing ovation The Quartet unveiled its proposals shortly after Mr Abbas formally submitted the request for a Palestinian state to   become a full member of the UN.Addressing the General Assembly in New York, he urged the Security Council to back a state with pre-1967 borders.”I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favour of our full membership,” Mr Abbas told the General Assembly, in what was for him an unusually impassioned speech.”I also appeal to the states that have not yet recognised the State of Palestine to do so,” Mr Abbas said.”The

time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland,” he said.He added that he hoped for swift backing. Many delegates gave him a standing ovation, and some were clapping and even whistling in support.