The UN Security Council is set to vote Thursday on a resolution that would allow the state of Palestine to join the United Nations as a full member, a step the United States opposes and will veto if necessary.
Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, April 18, 2024.
Palestinian membership “needs to be the outcome of the negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians,” U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said. It “is something that would flow from the result of those negotiations.” After the Palestinians’ initial bid for full UN membership was rejected, they went to the General Assembly and by more than a two-thirds majority succeeded in having their status raised from a UN observer to a non-member observer state in November 2012. That opened the door for the Palestinian territories to join UN and other international organizations, including the International Criminal Court.
He stressed to the Security Council that it won’t be an alternative “for serious negotiations that are time-bound to implement the two-state solution” and UN resolutions, and to resolve pending issues between Palestinians and Israelis. Six months after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, which controlled Gaza, and the killing of 1,200 people in “the most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” he accused the Security Council of seeking “to reward the perpetrators of these atrocities with statehood.”
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