UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The United Nations Security Council on Monday revived hopes for the Palestinian Authority to become a full member of the United Nations.
But the US said relations between Israel and the Palestinians were not yet ripe. This all but ends the Palestinian Authority’s immediate hopes of joining the United Nations.
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The United States is one of the five permanent members of the Council that can veto any action taken by the Council. Members of the United Nations delegation reiterated on Monday that the Palestinian Authority must control all of the Palestinian territories and negotiate statehood with Israel before gaining statehood.
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters after voting to pass a ceasefire resolution in Gaza, the first demand for an end to fighting in Gaza during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Monday, March 25, 2024. Address the Security Council. . (AP Photo/Craig Rattle)
The Palestinian Authority controls parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Gaza army was forced out of Gaza when Hamas took power in 2007 and has no power in the country.
“The issue of full Palestinian membership is a decision that must be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians,” U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood told reporters on Monday.
After years of intermittent failed peace negotiations, the Palestinians turned to the United Nations to realize their dream of an independent state. Israel claims these measures are an attempt to circumvent the negotiation process. Israel’s current right-wing government is dominated by hard-liners who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Supporters of the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the United Nations last week asked the Security Council to reinstate their application for membership, submitted in 2011. The Palestinians’ new application for UN membership comes in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas that began on October 25th. As June 7 approaches, the decades-old unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains in the spotlight after years on the back burner.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations dismissed the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, reducing the problem to a question of his country’s very viability.
“Long before the establishment of the United Nations, the goal of the Palestinians was clear: the extermination of the Jewish people,” Ambassador Gilad Erdan told reporters. The United Nations was founded after World War II, and “the same genocidal ideology that this organization was founded to fight still prevails among the Palestinian people,” he said.
The Security Council decided this month to take a formal decision on Palestine’s membership in the UN, and the committee to consider the application will meet again on Thursday, the current Security Council President, Malta’s Ambassador to the UN, Vanessa, said. Mr. Frazier said.
“This is once again a historic moment,” said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hands the Palestinian Authority’s application to become the 194th Palestinian Authority to join the United Nations to then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on September 23, 2011, before addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. .
“It was a historic moment then, and now that historic moment has been relived,” Mansour told reporters.
