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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
"Russia fully supports the initiative of the Palestinian side to renew its application for Palestine’s full membership ... UN Security Council with a request to resume consideration of its bid ...
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 ...