The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly voted to support a Palestinian ... by the UN Security Council, and last month, the US vetoed a bid for full membership.
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday in support of a Palestinian bid for full membership of the organization, a symbolic move due to the United States' veto in the Security Council ...
In this context, the conflict in Gaza has only vindicated the Palestinians in their quest for UN membership ... its bid (the last bid was in 2011) to join the UN as a full member. The Palestinian ...
which called for full UN membership for Palestine. (Washington argues that statehood should emerge out of negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials, rather than be granted ...
“We have said from the beginning the best way to ensure Palestinian full membership in the U.N. is to do that through negotiations with Israel. That remains our position.” Under the U.N ...
in 2011 - US threats of a veto were enough to thwart full membership. Still, it was seen as progress. This week, the Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour revived the bid. “It was a ...
Many Western and European countries have believed that full Palestinian statehood recognition and its UN membership should ... on Friday backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by ...
In 2011, Palestine already applied for permanent UN membership, but it later decided ... Council’s closed-door consultations on the Palestinian bid. "So we have agreed that <…> the committee ...