Several diplomatic sources told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that the Council will vote on Thursday on the application submitted by the Palestinian Authority for full membership in the United Nations, but this date is no longer certain after some members called for the session to be delayed until Friday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the date of the session had not been decided, according to several diplomatic sources.
Slovenia's ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Szbogar, told a number of journalists on Wednesday afternoon that “the matter is still pending” between the session being held Thursday or Friday.
On the other hand, he said Palestinian Ambassador to the International Organization, Riyad Mansour “The vote will take place tomorrow at three o’clock in the afternoon. I am sure of that. If you do not believe me, you will see tomorrow.”
However, the Maltese diplomatic mission, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of April, did not confirm this date nor did it deny it.
Regardless of the date of the session, the outcome of the vote seems predetermined in light of the United States’ opposition to the draft resolution it presented. Algeria Which “recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be accepted as a member of the United Nations.”
In the midst of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority called on the Security Council at the beginning of this April to reconsider the request it submitted in 2011 to obtain… Full membership in the United Nations.
But the United States, which has veto power, explicitly expressed its opposition to this effort.
On Tuesday evening it was published The Palestinian Mission to the United Nations On its account on the
The Arab group said in its message, “We call on all members of the UN Security Council to vote in favor of the draft resolution submitted by Algeria on behalf of Arab group (…). At the very least, we call on Council members not to obstruct this essential initiative.”
A country is accepted as a member of the United Nations by a decision issued by the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority, but only after a positive recommendation to this effect by Security Council StatesY.
The recommendation is issued by the Security Council pursuant to a resolution that must be approved by at least nine of the Council’s 15 members, on the condition that no permanent member state uses its veto to eliminate it.
According to the Palestinian Authority, 137 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have to date recognized the State of Palestine.
In September 2011, the President of the Palestinian Authority presented Mahmoud Abbas Requesting “for the State of Palestine to join the United Nations.”
Although his initiative did not bear fruit, in November 2012 the Palestinians obtained the status of a “non-member observer state” in the United Nations.
