The UN General Assembly adopted a draft resolution submitted by the UAE recommending that the Security Council approve the membership of the Palestinian Authority as a full member of the organization.
143 countries voted in favor of the document, 9 countries voted against it (including the US, Hungary and the Czechia). 25 UN members abstained. Among them are Britain, Ukraine and Georgia.
The resolution also, starting with the next session of the General Assembly, in September, grants Palestinians additional rights and privileges.
Among other things, the delegation will be able to put forward proposals and amendments directly, rather than through another country as it does now, to take seats among UN member states, to elect members of the Palestinian delegation as officers in the plenary and in the main committees of the General Assembly.
Accepting the Palestinian Authority as a full member requires approval by the Security Council, and then the decision must receive a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly.
On April 19, the UN Security Council rejected a draft resolution on the issue. The veto was then vetoed by the US as a permanent member of the Security Council.
Since 2012, the Palestinian Authority has been in the UN in the status of an observer state.
