The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the ...
The UN General Assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution to grant membership to Palestine, a longstanding pursuit for the ...
The Palestinians failed to pass a major hurdle in their renewed effort to seek full United Nations membership on Thursday when the United States vetoed ... statehood for the Palestinian people ...
The United States has vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council on the latest Palestinian bid to be granted full ... voting in its favour, with no vetoes by any of its five permanent members ...
The US vetoed ... nine votes and no vetoes, as well as a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly. More than 100 states have been admitted to the UN using this procedure. Although more than nine ...
The US has blocked a Palestinian bid to be recognised as a full member state at the United Nations. Twelve of the 15-member Security Council were in favour, Britain and Switzerland abstained, but ...
With approximately 140 countries already recognizing Palestine, widespread support for its admission was expected in the General Assembly, where no vetoes exist. US justification US Ambassador ...
The US has blocked a Palestinian bid to be recognised as a full member state at the United Nations. Twelve of the 15-member Security Council were in favour, Britain and Switzerland abstained ...
A council resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the permanent members -- US, Britain, France, Russia or China -- to pass. Palestine’s application for full UN membership ...
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, had described the bid for full-member ... least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, Britain, France, Russia or ...