USA vetoed a vote in Parliament this Thursday UN Security Council the income of Palestine as a full member of the international organization within the framework of a process that has been paralyzed since 2011.
The approval recommendation subsequently failed The United States exercised its veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council. A total of 12 countries voted in favor – including Russia – while one voted against and another abstained. In this way, Palestine continues to have non-member observer status, which it has held since 2012.
“After considering the application of the State of Palestine for admission to the United Nations (S/2011/592), the Security Council recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted as a member of the United Nations,” the rejected text reads.
The last time a state exercised its right to veto the accession of new members was in 1976 as the then American representative to the United Nations, William W. Scranton, He raised his hand to deny entry. Vietnam in the international organization during the presidential term Gerald Ford. A year later, the US gave the green light to the recommendation.
The resolution had to have the support of at least nine of the Council’s 15 members, without any permanent member – the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom – voting against it. After completing this process, the resolution had to undergo a second vote in the General Assembly, where it had to have a majority of two-thirds of the 193 member states that make up it.
The petition was already originally submitted 2011although the process was paralyzed and resumed after the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, Riad Mansurrequested in a letter to the Secretary General at the beginning of April, Antonio Guterresthat the status of the non-member observer is checked.
The vote in the Security Council takes place in the middle of the Israeli army’s offensive against the Gaza Stripcontrolled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), where Almost 34,000 Palestinians have already diedaccording to authorities in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army launched its offensive after attacks by Palestinian militias on October 7, in which around 1,200 people died and around 240 were kidnapped. In addition to this death toll, more than 460 Palestinians were killed West Bank and in East Jerusalem by Israeli security forces and by attacks by settlers.