The goal of the article is to present the contemporary status of Palestine in the United Nations Organization and to sum up the role played by Palestine till now. Thus, one need to start with describing the institution of the Permanent Observer in general and in relation to the United ...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to grant an upgrade of Palestine's status from "entity" to "non-member state", which is an implicit and symbolic recognition of Palestine's statehood at the UN. The 193 UN member state...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, denounced today’s General Assembly vote which upgrades ‘Palestine’ as an “observer state” and urges the UN Security Council to reconsider making ‘Palestine’ the UN’s 194th state. “In effect, the General Assembly is rewardi...
What Palestinian Membership Means for UNESCO and the Rest of the United Nations In September 2011, the Palestinian Author-ity requested membership for "Palestine" in the United Nations—violating its commitment under the 1993 Oslo Acco... BD Schaefer...
the United States of America); one Permanent Observer (Palestine); one intergovernmental organization (the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC); and four non-governmental organizations (the International Council on Archives - ICA, the International Council of Museums - ICOM, the International...
Palestine and the Arab world and a natural or inevitable trend of history, while the abstention is no less important to Australia in the sense that the voting decision eventually steered Australia, a newly elected United Nations Security Council (UNSC) member, away from getting on the wrong ...
29th is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The date was chosen because on that day in 1947, the General Assembly adopted what came to be known as the Partition Resolution. That resolution provided for the establishment in Palestine ...
In Israel, the term refers to an informal agreement conducted in 1947 between the secular leadership of the Zionist movement in Palestine and leaders of the Orthodox Jews, which created a framework for the establishment of the country. This agreement lays out ground rules for the relationship betw...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haleyvetosan Egyptian-drafted resolution regarding recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem, during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestine, at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, New...