Baghdad / NINA /- The United Nations General Assembly will vote today, Friday, on a new draft resolution regarding the eligibility of the State of Palestine to full membership and strengthening its position in the international system, like the rest of the countries of the world. The UN Security Council recommends that the matter be reconsidered positively.
According to the Palestinian News Agency "WAFA", the vote will take place on the draft resolution in the 193-member United Nations General Assembly, at ten in the morning today (New York time), and will serve as a global survey of the extent of support that Palestine enjoys and its request for full membership in the international organization.
The adoption of the resolution by the General Assembly will be tantamount to a request from the UN Security Council to reconsider the request for full membership and issue a positive recommendation commensurate with the consensus and international momentum on which the adoption of this resolution was based.”
At the beginning of last April, Palestine submitted a request to the Security Council to reconsider the application it submitted in 2011 to obtain full membership in the United Nations.
On the eighteenth of last April, the United States of America used its veto power to prevent the State of Palestine from obtaining full membership.
At that time, the draft resolution submitted by Algeria recommending that the General Assembly accept the State of Palestine as a member of the United Nations was supported by 12 out of 15 members of the Security Council, and the United States opposed it. Britain and Switzerland abstained from voting.
According to the UN Charter, a state is admitted to the United Nations by a decision of the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority, but only after a positive recommendation to that effect by 9 members of the Security Council, out of 15 members, provided that none of the five permanent members vote (Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) against the request.
Palestine currently has observer state status, according to a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012./End
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According to the Palestinian News Agency "WAFA", the vote will take place on the draft resolution in the 193-member United Nations General Assembly, at ten in the morning today (New York time), and will serve as a global survey of the extent of support that Palestine enjoys and its request for full membership in the international organization.
The adoption of the resolution by the General Assembly will be tantamount to a request from the UN Security Council to reconsider the request for full membership and issue a positive recommendation commensurate with the consensus and international momentum on which the adoption of this resolution was based.”
At the beginning of last April, Palestine submitted a request to the Security Council to reconsider the application it submitted in 2011 to obtain full membership in the United Nations.
On the eighteenth of last April, the United States of America used its veto power to prevent the State of Palestine from obtaining full membership.
At that time, the draft resolution submitted by Algeria recommending that the General Assembly accept the State of Palestine as a member of the United Nations was supported by 12 out of 15 members of the Security Council, and the United States opposed it. Britain and Switzerland abstained from voting.
According to the UN Charter, a state is admitted to the United Nations by a decision of the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority, but only after a positive recommendation to that effect by 9 members of the Security Council, out of 15 members, provided that none of the five permanent members vote (Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) against the request.
Palestine currently has observer state status, according to a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012./End
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