RAMALLAH: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said he will press on with a campaign for full state membership at the United Nations despite ongoing "exploratory" talks with Israel.

Palestinian officials have said the talks, which so far have included two meetings in Amman in the last 10 days, will not continue beyond January 26 -- the deadline set by the international peacemaking Quartet for both sides to submit comprehensive proposals on borders and security.

But the current dialogue with Israel will not stop the Palestinians from seeking UN recognition, Abbas said.

"We will continue our (statehood) efforts in the Security Council," he told a meeting of his Fatah movement on Thursday, adding that he also planned to petition the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva over Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory.

"We want to make a complaint against the occupation, which violates the Geneva Convention," Abbas said, according to an official transcript of his remarks.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said this week that meetings in Jordan would not develop into full negotiations without a settlement freeze and Israel agreeing to accept parameters for future talks.

"The Amman talks are intended to obtain a settlement freeze and the use of the 1967 lines as a reference for any future talks, and will be given a chance to succeed until January 26," Erakat told AFP.

In the absence of formal negotiations with Israel, the Palestinians have focused their attention on the international arena. In 2011 they won a UNESCO seat over US and Israeli opposition.

Erakat said 2012 "will be the year that the Palestinians go to the United Nations and all of its organisations."

Abbas also told Fatah officials he was committed to reconciliation with the rival Hamas movement.

"We want to bring reconciliation to fruition," he said. "There are people in certain places, I do not wish to specify where, who do not want reconciliation but there are people who do want reconciliation.

"Reconciliation is the main thing and we shall not allow anyone to get in our way if we reach an agreement," he said.

The two factions signed a unity deal in May 2011 following years of bitter hostility but it has yet to be implemented.

On Thursday, a senior Fatah official said the cause of the hold-up was internal divisions within Hamas itself.

"We know there are executive forces in Hamas in Gaza that don't want the reconciliation or to surrender their empire, money or influence," Amin Maqbul, secretary of Fatah?s Revolutionary Council told Voice of Palestine radio.

"There is a real threat to the reconciliation if Hamas's leadership abroad does not start pressuring those (in Gaza) to change the situation," he said.

"If not, those on the ground in Gaza will not allow this agreement to be completed. We all know reconciliation is not just ink on paper. It is actions."

Since Hamas forcibly took power in 2007, the Palestinian territories have been divided into two political camps, with Abbas's Fatah largely ruling the West Bank through the internationally-recognised Palestinian Authority, while Hamas holds power in Gaza.

Last month, Abbas met exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Cairo and the two agreed on a process that could pave the way for the Islamist group to join a reformed Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and for long-delayed Palestinian elections.