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2024-04-04 International-UN-NGOs
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Palestinians officially relaunch bid to become United Nations member state, US ‘signals opposition’
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[IsraelTimes] Palestine Liberation Organization seeks recognition as state from world body, which granted it observer status in 2012, but vote on application can be vetoed by US.
| I’m confused. They keep telling us the Palestinian Authority government is nothing like the PLO, even though PA President Mahmoud Abbas is the current head of Fatah, the largest group in the PLO. |
The Paleostine Liberation Organization has officially revived its application to become a full member state in the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
, according to a letter from its UN envoy dated Tuesday.
The PLO, which has had observer status at the world body since 2012, has lobbied for years to gain full membership, which would amount to recognition of Paleostinian statehood.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, the Paleostinian UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, requested "upon instructions of the Paleostinian leadership" that an application dating back to 2011 be reconsidered this month by the Security Council.
The letter has been transmitted to the council, according to the documents seen by the AFP news agency.
Mansour has repeatedly said in recent months that in the face of Israel’s military offensive in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip in response to the devastating October 7 onslaught by Hamas
 ...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
, UN membership was a priority for the PA.
A council committee of 15 members first assesses an application to see if it satisfies the requirements for UN membership. The application can then either be shelved or put forward for a formal vote in the Security Council. Approval requires at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the US, Russia, China, La Belle France, or Britannia.
If the council approves the membership request, it then moves to the General Assembly for approval. A membership request needs a two-thirds majority to be approved by the assembly. A country cannot join the United Nations unless both the Security Council and General Assembly approve.
The 2011 application, launched by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
, never came before the Security Council for a vote, and the General Assembly voted to grant the PA observer status in November 2012.
The UN Security Council committee assessed the application for several weeks to see if it satisfied the requirements for UN membership. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the committee was unable to reach a unanimous position and the Security Council never formally voted on a resolution on Paleostinian membership.
Diplomats said the Paleostinians lacked the minimum nine votes needed to adopt a resolution. Even if they had won enough support, the United States had said it would veto the move.
Observers believe the current Paleostinian push for membership is unlikely to reach the assembly as the United States, Israel’s closest ally, could use its Security Council veto power to derail the recommendation.
The League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain...
, and the Non-Aligned Movement sent a letter to Guterres on Tuesday, also seen by AFP, supporting the bid by the PA.
"We wish to bring to your attention that, as of this date, 140 Member States have recognized the state of Paleostine," said the joint letter, which included a list of those countries.
Little progress has been made in achieving Paleostinian statehood since the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PA in the early 1990s. Among the obstacles are persistent Paleostinian terrorism and incitement against the Jewish state, along with expanding Israeli settlements.
The PA exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank and is Israel’s partner in the Oslo Accords. Hamas in 2007 ousted the Paleostinian Authority from power in the Gaza Strip.
US signals opposition to renewed Palestinian bid for statehood status at UN
[IsraelTimes] State Department says Palestinian state should be established ‘through direct negotiations… not at the United Nations,’ as PLO envoy seeks vote later this month.
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