While a General Assembly vote cannot confer UN membership, the approved resolution does endow the Palestinian Authority with ...

The assembly adopted a resolution on Friday with 143 votes in favour and nine against - including the US and Israel - while ...

The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a Palestinian request for full UN membership. On the other hand, seven more Palestinians, including women and children, have been ...

Israel's UN ambassador Gilad Erdan reacted angrily to the largely symbolic vote, while Palestinian ambassador ... for the Council to grant Palestine membership and the US vetoing it." ...

Following the US blockade of the vote, several countries ... and "an inherent right of the Palestinian people". It said preventing Palestine from gaining full UN membership is a move that is ...

The letter by Palestinian ... but have no right to vote. The only other country with the permanent observer status at this point is the Holy See (Vatican). The UN membership is granted by the ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the vote aligns with ... Assembly's aspiration for Palestinian membership of the United Nations, noting that this must be recommended by the UN Security ...

"Russia fully supports the initiative of the Palestinian side to renew its application for Palestine’s full membership in ... collect two-thirds of the vote at the UN General Assembly.

New York, SANA- Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia said that the United states “once again demonstrated what they really think of the Palestinian” when it has ...

It is "very difficult" to imagine any operation to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip without the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UNRWA spokeswoman said on Friday. The United ...

With 142 nations voting in favour of a non-binding resolution, calling for Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian territories ... by abstaining on a vote in the UN for Israel to end its ...