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Meeting adopts decision with 143 votes in favour and 9 in opposition to – together with the US and Israel – whereas 25 nations abstained.
The United Nations Basic Meeting has backed a Palestinian bid to turn out to be a full UN member by recognising it as certified to hitch and recommending the UN Safety Council “rethink the matter favourably”.
The vote by the 193-member Basic Meeting on Friday was a worldwide survey of help for the Palestinian bid to turn out to be a full UN member – a transfer that will successfully recognise a Palestinian state – after america vetoed it within the UN Safety Council final month.
The meeting adopted a decision on Friday with 143 votes in favour and 9 in opposition to – together with the US and Israel – whereas 25 nations abstained. It doesn’t give the Palestinians full UN membership, however merely recognises them as certified to hitch.
The Basic Meeting decision “determines that the State of Palestine … ought to due to this fact be admitted to membership” and it “recommends that the Safety Council rethink the matter favourably”.
Whereas the Basic Meeting alone can’t grant full UN membership, the draft decision being put to a vote on Friday will give the Palestinians some extra rights and privileges from September 2024 – like a seat among the many UN members within the meeting corridor – however it is not going to be granted a vote within the physique.
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