The Palestinian state is making ready to hunt full U.N. membership and ask member states to endorse its admission, the nation’s ambassador to the United Nations mentioned Thursday.
“We will intensify these discussions and we will use a variety of things, including we might have a statement and solicit signatures from member states welcoming and supporting the admission of the State of Palestine to membership before in fact going to the (UN) Security Council and to submit a resolution calling for recommendation to admit the state of Palestine as a member of the UN,” Riyad Mansour instructed reporters in New York.
His remarks got here a day after Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted 99-11 to again a call by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities to reject any unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood.
“It’s only us, the Palestinian people, who will determine our right to self-determination, including the independence of our state. We will not negotiate that principle with anyone and we will not ask for permission from anyone to do so,” Mansour mentioned.
Palestine will expedite the method within the U.N. General Assembly of asking the worldwide neighborhood to take sensible measures to drive Israel to elevate its siege on Gaza, comparable to asking international locations to not ship or promote weapons and ammunition to Israel, or asking them to not give visas to settlers, he added.
The State of Palestine was accepted as an observer state of the U.N. General Assembly in 2012, permitting its envoy to take part in debates and U.N. organizations however and not using a vote.
According to the U.N. Charter, states are admitted to membership within the UN by a call of the General Assembly upon the advice of the Security Council.
“It was the international community that decided to create two states in Palestine since 1947. It is the duty of the international community along with the Palestinian people to complete that exercise by admitting the state of Palestine to membership,” Mansour mentioned.
Instead of obeying the provisional orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Mansour mentioned Israel goes additional in denying Palestine, together with its proper to train self-determination.
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