UN committee fails on full membership for Palestine

New York -- A UN Security Council committee has failed to agree on a common response to a renewed bid by the State of Palestine for full United Nations membership.اضافة اعلان

Following a meeting in New York on Thursday, Vanessa Frazier, Malta's ambassador to the UN and the committee chair, stated that two-thirds of the members supported the application, with five against.

It is considered unlikely that the committee will then recommend that the Security Council vote on the application. However, a resolution to that effect could be introduced at any time by any member state of the Security Council.

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