A United Nations General Assembly resolution asking the UN Security Council to reconsider Palestine's membership was approved this Friday (10), with 143 votes in favor, nine votes against and 25 abstentions.
The resolution calls on the Security Council to “reconsider the matter favorably” and stresses that the Palestinian Authority be granted UN membership, saying that “the State of Palestine is qualified to be a member of the United Nations”.
Before the Assembly session began, the U.S. Mission to the UN indicated that if the resolution were adopted and the application for membership sent to the Security Council, the U.S. would veto it again, saying: “We expect a similar outcome to what occurred in April.”
The US mission said the Palestinian Authority does not meet the criteria for UN membership and that the resolution does not resolve concerns previously raised about Palestinian membership.
In April, the Palestinian Authority relaunched its membership application and, at the end of that month, the US vetoed the Palestinian attempt to obtain membership status. The vote in the Security Council had 12 members in favor and one against, in addition to the US veto. Israel praised the US veto, calling the Palestinian proposal a “shameful proposal”, while the presidency of the Palestinian Authority called the veto “unfair, immoral and unjustified”.
In September 2011, the Palestinian Authority failed to obtain UN recognition as an independent Member State. A year later, the UN decided that the Palestinian Authority's status as a “non-member observer entity” would be changed to a “non-member observer state”, similar to the Vatican.
Source: CNN Brasil
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