BREAKING NEWS PALESTINE ONE STEP CLOSER TO FULL STATEHOOD AT UNITED NATIONS
April 9, 2024The United Nations Security Council president has referred the Palestinian Authority’s (PA’s) application for Palestine to become a full member of the world body to its membership committee.
The 15-member committee is expected to decide Palestine’s status this month, said Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s UN ambassador, who also proposed that the committee meet on Monday to consider the application.
Malta is president of the Security Council for April.
Ambassador Mansour told reporters in New York that the PA sincerely hoped that after 12 years as an observer state at the UN, the Security Council would elevate itself to implementing the global consensus on the two-state solution by admitting the state of Palestine for full membership.
Last week, the PA formally asked for renewed consideration by the Security Council of its 2011 application to become a full member of the world body. The Palestinians are a non-member observer state at the UN, the same status as the Holy See.
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Gabriel Elizondo: The State of Palestine is one step closer to full UN membership. This after the Security Council agreed to reconsider its application. For many years, Palestine has been trying to gain the same full membership status currently bestowed on 193 other countries.
Riyad Mansour: All we ask for is to take our rightful place among the community of nations, to be treated as equals, equals to other nations and states.
Gabriel Elizondo: A Security Council Standing Committee on new member applications made up of all 15 council members, on Monday afternoon held their first closed door meeting to discuss the Palestinian application. But if they cannot reach an agreement to the Security Council or if the US vetoes it, the membership bid fails. And that’s exactly what happened in 2011. The last time Palestine’s bid for full UN membership got this far along in the process, it failed primarily because the United States threatened to veto it. The U.S.’ long standing position is that Palestine’s full UN membership should only be considered at the end of a peace process with Israel. Late on Monday, after the closed door meeting, the U.S. ambassador said their position has not changed.
Linda Thomas Greenfield: Our position is a position that’s known. It hasn’t changed, but we want to continue to find a path to, bring a two state solution, to the Palestinians that provides peace for Israel and a state for Palestine.
Gabriel Elizondo: Palestine has long felt disenfranchised from the UN because it has no voting powers in the General Assembly due to its observer status. To become a full member in the UN, Article four of the charter is the guidance which says a country must be a peace loving state that accepts obligations of the charter, is able to carry out those obligations and is willing to do so. Most member states believe Palestine meets that threshold. But if the U.S. fails to budge on its long standing opposition, the bid is likely doomed once again. Gabriel Elizondo, Al-Jazeera At the United Nations in New York.
