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...
Headquartered in New York and led by the Secretary-General, the UN has 193 member states, representing almost every country in the world. There are five permanent U.N. members: the U.S., Russia, France, the U.K., and China. When a new state applies to join the UN, it only takes ...
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 ...
The Palestinians have rejected the American offer and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution on Friday. It’s looking more and more like the Obama adminstration will soon cast its first ever veto in the UN Security Council. This entry was posted in Israel, Palestine, ...
Today, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released the following statement on the UN’s vote to give “favorable consideration” to “Palestine’s” request to become the 194th member state:The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, denounced today’s General Assembly vote which ...
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 ...
During his statement following a vote in which the United States vetoed a draft resolution for Palestine's full membership to the UN, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, expressed profound disappointme...
deprivation of the right to vote, service rights, and collaboration with other organizations. The other governing body of WHO is the Executive Board, which consists of 24 persons chosen by the same number of member states and elected to three-year terms by the World Health Assembly. The Execut...
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a new bill to Congress with 57 co-sponsors which proposes slashing America's financial contribution to any part of the UN that supports the vote on the recognition of Palestine on September 20.Ros-Lehtinen ...