GENEVA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Over 20 experts and special rapporteurs of the United Nations (UN) called on Monday for all countries to recognize a Palestinian state. In their statement, the experts and special rapporteurs emphasized that all states should follow the example set by over 140 UN...
RAMALLAH, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The widely-applauded decisions by Norway, Ireland and Spain to recognize Palestine as a state show that more countries now stand on the side of justice over the issue, leaving the United States increasingly isolated. Palestinians have long craved statehood. Back in...
Spain and Ireland allannounced plans on Wednesdayto recognize a state of Palestine, breaking with the long-held position of Western powers that a Palestinian state can only come as part of a negotiated peace with
"The intention of several European countries to recognize a Palestinian state is a reward for terrorism," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. About 144 of the 193 member-states of the United Nations recognize Palestine as a state, but only a handful of the 27 Europea...
The World Bank, the IOC etc. Yet the countries that don’t recognize it includes Iraq, Iran, Angola, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Mali, Nigeria, Russia, Syria and Sudan, so I have gone with including it in my list and I personally recognize Kosovo as a country,so that makes 197 countries ...
Currently, every existing UN member country is also an Olympic Nation, with the latest addition,South Sudan, joining in August 2015. The one UN Observer State that participates in the Olympics is Palestine. The other, Vatican City, participates as part of the Italian teamfor now. Countries can...
Palestine was excluded from search keys because the Web of Science database does not recognize Palestine as an independent state yet. However, we used city keys as a search strategy to extract data pertaining to research output from Palestine and then the results of the 2 search strategies were...
Palestine 4.0 Qatar 1.8 Saudi Arabia 27.2 Syria 21.5 Turkey 72.1 United Arab Emirates 8.4 Yemen 22.8 Source: UN Population Division: World Population Prospects, 2012 Revision. In 2010, the total population of these 22 countries was estimated as 488 million persons, with almost one-half (46%) ...
The ministry stressed that the resolution came at a crucial moment when the Palestinian issue was going through a "delicate stage." Egypt called on all countries that have yet to decide to recognize the Palestinian state to "take this important and pivotal step" to support the Palestinian cause...
OPEC is an actor that does not fit well into a traditional perspective given that it has been seen, since the 1970s, as at least coresponsible for high oil prices, nor into the modern “green” perspective, because it pushes, naturally, for hydrocarbon consumption. The fact that a high ...