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Envoy says no UN membership for Palestinians now
Source: Associated Press
Envoy says no UN membership for Palestinians now
By EDITH M. LEDERER
January 28, 2019
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian ambassador at the United Nations said Monday that the day will come when “obstacles” in the Security Council to full U.N. membership for Palestine will be removed “but that day is not today.”
The main hurdle is the United States, a veto-wielding Security Council member which insists that the only way Palestine can gain full membership in the United Nations is after negotiating a peace deal with Israel.
“We disagree with them on that,” Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a group of journalists. “We believe that our statehood, and our admission, is an innate right for the Palestinian people ... to exercise it alone. It is not open for negotiation with anyone — nor will we ask for permission from anyone.”
Mansour said the legal right for Palestine to be a full member of the United Nations was formalized in the 1947 General Assembly resolution that partitioned British-ruled Palestine into “independent Arab and Jewish states.”
Israel was accepted as a U.N. member, he said, and Palestine which “will continue fighting for that right.”
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
January 28, 2019
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian ambassador at the United Nations said Monday that the day will come when “obstacles” in the Security Council to full U.N. membership for Palestine will be removed “but that day is not today.”
The main hurdle is the United States, a veto-wielding Security Council member which insists that the only way Palestine can gain full membership in the United Nations is after negotiating a peace deal with Israel.
“We disagree with them on that,” Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a group of journalists. “We believe that our statehood, and our admission, is an innate right for the Palestinian people ... to exercise it alone. It is not open for negotiation with anyone — nor will we ask for permission from anyone.”
Mansour said the legal right for Palestine to be a full member of the United Nations was formalized in the 1947 General Assembly resolution that partitioned British-ruled Palestine into “independent Arab and Jewish states.”
Israel was accepted as a U.N. member, he said, and Palestine which “will continue fighting for that right.”
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Read more: https://apnews.com/046f8e12d1b54605ace931476ebb9e4e