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UN General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Palestinian Bid for Membership
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The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution upgrading the Palestinian Authority's status, with 143 member states voting in favor, nine against, and 29 abstaining. This move comes after the Palestinians relaunched their request for full UN membership, which was first made in 2011. The resolution considers the Palestinian Authority's request for a state and calls on the Security Council to reconsider its membership. The General Assembly also passed another resolution expressing support for Palestine's full membership in the international body, with Singapore voting in favor of this resolution. However, Israel and the United States were among the nine countries that voted against it.
The message that the UN is sending to our suffering region: violence pays off.
The day will come where Palestine will take its rightful place among the community of free nations.
A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence, it is not against any state.... It is an investment in peace.
When you build a building, you build it one brick at a time. If some think it's symbolic, for us it's important as we are moving forward towards our natural and legal right to be a full member of the UN.
We've been very clear from the beginning there is a process for obtaining full membership in the United Nations, and this effort by some of the Arab countries and the Palestinians is to try to go around that.
What we were hearing before the vote was anywhere perhaps between 120, 130 – at top end, 140. The fact that they got 143 meets and exceeds all expectations. It's been overwhelmingly passed.
I think a good number of votes [in favour] were against the United States as much as they were for Palestine, and I think a good number of votes were abstaining under pressure from the United States.
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sources
- 1.The New York Times
- 2.The Times of India
- 3.The Guardian
- 4.Al Jazeera
- 5.Haaretz
- 6.CNA News
- 7.France 24
- 8.Le Monde
- 9.CNN
- 10.Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA)
- 11.Daily Sabah
- 12.ABC News (Australia)
perspectives
- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.US under Donald Trump
- 3.2024 US Presidential Election
- 4.Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 5.British Foreign Policy
- 6.Israel Foreign Policy
- 7.Islamic Terrorism
- 8.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
- 9.Israel-US Relations
- 10.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 11.Qatar Foreign Policy
countries
- 1.Andorra
- 2.United Arab Emirates
- 3.Antigua and Barbuda
- 4.Albania
- 5.Armenia
- 6.Angola
- 7.Argentina
- 8.Austria
- 9.Australia
- 10.Azerbaijan
- 11.Barbados
- 12.Bangladesh
organizations
- 1.United Nations
- 2.UN General Assembly
- 3.Hamas
- 4.UN Security Council
- 5.Palestinian National Authority
- 6.Palestine Liberation Organization
- 7.Republican Party
- 8.UN International Crisis Group
- 9.Boko Haram
- 10.Fatah
- 11.ISIS-K
- 12.UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
persons
- 1.Gilad Erdan
- 2.Riyad Mansour
- 3.Robert Wood
- 4.Richard Gowan
- 5.Israel Katz
- 6.Mahmud Abbas
- 7.Mohamed Abushahab
- 8.Nathan Evans
- 9.Samuel Zbogar
- 10.Aaron Boxerman
- 11.António Guterres
- 12.Bilal Shbair