{"id":35924,"date":"2024-05-11T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35924"},"modified":"2024-05-11T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:17:35","slug":"un-general-assembly-overwhelmingly-backs-palestinian-bid-for-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/un-general-assembly-overwhelmingly-backs-palestinian-bid-for-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"UN General Assembly overwhelmingly backs Palestinian bid for membership"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member and <\/span>voted by a wide margin to grant new \u201crights and privileges\u201d to Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The international <\/span>body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine against with 25 abstentions and recommended the U.N. Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.” The United States voted against it, along with Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vote reflected the wide global support for full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, with many countries expressing outrage at the escalating death toll in Gaza and fears of a major Israeli offensive in Rafah, a southern city where about 1.3 million Palestinians have sought refuge.<\/span><\/p>\n

The adopted resolution does not give the Palestinians full U.N. membership but simply recognizes them as qualified to join.<\/div>\n

The resolution “determines that the State of Palestine … should therefore be admitted to membership” and it “recommends that the Security Council reconsider the request <\/span>favorably.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Norway’s Parliament Recognizes Palestine as an Independent State.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Before the vote, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, told the assembly in an emotional speech that \u201cNo words can capture what such loss and trauma signifies for Palestinians, their families, communities, <\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0for our nation as a whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said Palestinians in Gaza \u201chave been pushed to the very edge of the strip, to the very brink of life\u201d with Israel besieging Rafah. He <\/span>accused Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of preparing \u201cto kill thousands to ensure his political survival\u201d and aiming to destroy the Palestinian people.<\/span><\/p>\n

He welcomed the resolution\u2019s strong support and told the <\/span>Associated Press<\/em> that 144 countries have now recognized the state of Palestine, including four countries since Oct. 7, all from the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan vehemently opposed the resolution, accusing U.N. member nations of not mentioning Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack and seeking to reward modern-day Nazis with rights and privileges.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Security Council vote on April 18, the Palestinians got much more support for full U.N. membership. The vote was 12 in favor, with <\/span>the<\/span> United Kingdom and Switzerland abstaining, and the United States voting against and vetoing the resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member and voted by a wide margin to grant new \u201crights and privileges\u201d to Palestine. The international body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine against with 25 abstentions and recommended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16739,16741,16740],"class_list":["post-35924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-palestine-un-member","tag-palestinian-membership-bis","tag-unga-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}