{"id":39176,"date":"2024-05-11T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39176"},"modified":"2024-05-11T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:03:56","slug":"un-general-assembly-backs-palestinian-bid-for-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39176","title":{"rendered":"UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED NATIONS, May 10 &#8211; The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council &#8220;reconsider the matter favorably.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member &#8211; a move that would effectively recognize a Palestinian state &#8211; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/un-security-council-vote-thursday-palestinian-un-membership-2024-04-18\/\">the United States vetoed it in the U.N. Security Council<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assembly adopted a resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine against &#8211; including the U.S. and Israel &#8211; while 25 countries abstained. It does not give the Palestinians full U.N. membership, but simply recognizes them as qualified to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution &#8220;determines that the State of Palestine &#8230; should therefore be admitted to membership&#8221; and it &#8220;recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Palestinian push for full U.N. membership comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/israel-hamas\/\">seven months into a war<\/a> between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and as Israel is expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the U.N. considers to be illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We want peace, we want freedom,&#8221; Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the assembly before the vote. &#8220;A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence, it is not against any state. &#8230; It is an investment in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: UNITED NATIONS, May 10 &#8211; The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council &#8220;reconsider the matter favorably.&#8221; The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member &#8211; a move that would effectively recognize a Palestinian state &#8211; after the United States vetoed it in the U.N. Security Council last month. The assembly adopted a resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39178,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions\/39178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}