Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hinted on Saturday that he would reject international peacemaking proposals that disregard specific conditions set out by his government, including a halt to Israeli settlement building.

Abbas told reporters in West Bank that his government "will not deal with any initiative" that did not demand Israeli halt construction in the West Bank or negotiations that envisioned a Palestinian state based on borders created after the 1967 war.

Palestine's hard line on peace talks comes amid U.S.-led pressure to abandon its bid to have the UN recognize a state of Palestine in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The peacemaking Quartet – consisting of the U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russia -- have urged Palestine and Israel to prepare an agenda for peace talks within months and aim to have a final deal in place within a year.

Abbas said he was still studying a peace proposal from the Quartet. That proposal, however, does not match the negotiating demands he outlined on Saturday.

His comments come one day after Abbas appeared at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to request statehood for Palestine.

The move was intended to bypass the peace process with Israel that has been stalled for over a year.

Queen's University professor Christian Leuprecht says the speech was part of a Palestinian strategy to break the negotiation stalemate and foster international support.

"This is not going to lead to any particular negotiations in the immediate term," Leuprecht told CTV News Channel in a video interview from Munich, Germany on Saturday.

"Both sides are clearly making emotional and moral appeals to the world community, rather than presenting carefully laid out arguments as to how either side a settlement might be reached."

Leuprecht said Palestine is hoping to garner enough support to win a vote for statehood and at least make the U.S. use its veto power -- a move that could lead the country down a politically tenuous path.

The resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians appears increasingly unlikely. Israel, for its part, opposes the pre-1967 caveat, insists that there be no preconditions to negotiations and has demanded that the Palestinians officially recognize Israel's right to exist.

University of Toronto professor Emanuel Adler says Israel and Palestine are hesitant to offer concessions on the settlement debate that would be politically difficult to sell to their own people.

"Before they talk to each other they have to talk to themselves," Adler told CTV News on Saturday. "If they are serious about a two-state solution they need to make compromises that so far, judging from the speeches yesterday, they are not willing to make."

Abbas said Israel's refusal to freeze settlement construction has been the major barrier to the advancement of negotiations.

He told the General Assembly that Israel has refused to negotiate in good faith while at the same time "frantically" building settlements "on the territory of the future state of Palestine."

Over the past 18 years, the number of Jews living in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has nearly doubled to 500,000 people.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the General Assembly that the Palestinians wanted to form a state without peace, while Palestinian militants waged battle against his country with the help of international partners like Iran.

With files from The Associated Press