Representatives vote on a draft resolution that recommends to the 193-member UN General Assembly that "the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations" during a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, on April 18, 2024. The United States on Thursday...
He said at present, an absolute majority of the global community supports Palestine's application to become a full member of the UN. "Today's use of the veto by the U.S. delegation is a hopeless attempt to stop the inevitable course of history. The results of the vote, where Washington...
While legally non-binding, a favourable vote in the UNGA would be a political boost for the Palestinians' cause - or so they hope. Full EU backing would give critical political weight to the Palestinians' claim. EU states are deeply divided on the issue of Palestinian membership of the UN ...
Mr. Trump threatened to cut financial support to those nations that vote in favor of the resolution -- a threat that has raised the stakes in the U.N. vote and sparked criticism at his tactics, which one Muslim group called bullying or blackmail. "For all of these nations that take our...
摘要: At the United Nations Security Council meeting in February 2011, the Security Council failed to adopt a text that would have described as "illegal" Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.年份: 2011 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 works.bepress.com ...
A Chinese envoy on Thursday strongly criticized countries that question Palestine's eligibility for UN membership under the UN Charter, emphasizing that statehood is an "inalienable national right" of the Palestinian people. During ...
Australia and New Zealand also supported the resolution, while Canada, Great Britain, and Ukraine abstained.There are already 143 countries that recognize Palestine as a state. Advertisement The UNGA vote, which is mostly symbolic, is viewed as an international referendum in support of unilateral Pal...
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Palestine last submitted an application to become a full UN member state in 2011 but it did not receive enough support. It instead obtained the status of a nonmember observer state in November 2012. The US Mission to the United Nations said of their "against" vote on May 10 that it "did...
Palestinian militant group Hamas welcomed the resolution and said it stood ready to engage in an immediate swap of prisoners with Israel. Sabri Saidam, a member of the central committee of Fatah — the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization — told Al Jazeera that the consensus...