The United States on Thursday blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution that would grant the observer state of Palestine full membership to the international body.
Twelve members of the Security Council had voted in favor of the resolution, the United States vetoed it, and two countries had abstained. US State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel had announced earlier Thursday that the US would vote against the resolution, saying that the US has “been very clear, consistently, that premature actions in New York, even with the best intentions, will not achieve statehood for the Palestinian people,” referring to the headquarters of the United Nations.
Speaking before the Security Council Thursday, Ziad Abu Amr, Special Representative of the Palestinians, said: “how could granting the State of Palestine full membership at the United Nations, similar to other countries around the world, how could this damage the prospect of peace between Palestinians and Israelis?” The Palestinian Mission to the UN first put in a request to be recognized as a full member state in 2011. It was granted ‘non-member observer state’ status in November of 2012.
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