DHAKA: A draft resolution setting out a Palestinian timetable for a peace deal with Israel has been submitted to the UN Security Council.

The document, presented by Jordan, calls for a deal within one year and Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories by the end of 2017.

Jordan has indicated it will not seek a quick vote, allowing further talks and a possible bid to secure US support, reports the BBC.

The US has vetoed previous resolutions it considers hostile to Israel.

The text of the draft says a negotiated solution should be based on several parameters including the borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War, security agreements, and ‘Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two states’.

It urges both parties ‘to abstain from any unilateral and illegal actions, including settlement activities that could undermine the viability of a two-state solution’.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought reassurances that the US, Israel’s ally, would block any efforts to adopt the resolution.

BDST: 1322 HRS, DEC 18, 2014