The U.N. Security Council has given hope to the Palestinian Authority's aspirations of becoming a full member of the United Nations, but the United States remains skeptical about the progress in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
New Insider Deals are here, and you’re going to love them!Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour addresses United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024, after a vote that passed a cease-fire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting. – The U.N. Security Council on Monday revived the Palestinian Authority 's hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member.
“The issue of full Palestinian membership is a decision that should be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians,” U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood told reporters Monday. Supporters of the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council last week to revive its application for admission submitted in 2011. The Palestinians’ fresh bid forIsrael’s U.N. ambassador dismissed any possibility of Palestinian statehood, reducing the issue to a question of his country’s very ability to survive.
The Security Council decided to make a formal decision on Palestinian U.N. membership this month, said Malta’s U.N. Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, the current Security Council president.of the United Nations to then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sept. 23, 2011, before addressing world leaders at the General Assembly.
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