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United Nations member countries representatives watch as the votes are tallied on the giant boards in the United Nations General Assembly room Friday 12 September 2003 in New York. The U.N. General Assembly Friday takes up a bid by Arab nations to get around this week's U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring Israel to drop a threat to remove Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. A vote is expected by the end of the day and is likely to reveal deep divisions in the quartet of international mediators the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations responsible for the road map intended to guide Israelis and Palestinians to lasting peace on 19 September, 2003 in New York City. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/Andrew GOMBERT)