While a General Assembly vote cannot confer UN membership, the approved resolution does endow the Palestinian Authority with new procedural rights and privileges. Only member states can vote ...
Hamas and its Palestinian Authority UN mouthpiece at the helm of the United Nations' lead body. A day in infamy." Several members in their post-vote statements stressed that they condemned the ...
The vote reflected the wide global support for full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, with many countries expressing outrage at the escalating death toll in Gaza and fears of a major ...
Why today’s vote has the world’s most powerful nations worried The US has long made clear its opposition to Palestinian membership of the UN on the grounds that it should not precede a bi ...
The vote reflected the wide global support for full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, with many countries expressing outrage at the escalating death toll in Gaza and fears of a major ...
Palestine currently has non-member observer status; a bid for its membership at the UN Security Council was blocked by the US in April. Israel’s ambassador to the UN rebuked the vote ...
Palestine became a U.N. non-member observer state in ... international conferences convened by the United Nations — but it drops their “right to vote” which was in the original draft.
The UN general assembly to vote on a resolution granting new rights to Palestine, urging Security Council to reconsider UN membership request. US opposes, emphasizing negotiation with Israel for ...