UN Security Council to decide on Palestinian membership this Friday

The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday about whether or not to give full UN membership to Palestine. The United States, a friend of Israel, is likely to say no because it would mean accepting Palestine as a country.

The council of 15 people will vote on Friday at 3 pm on a resolution to recommend that the United Nations accept Palestine as a member. Diplomats said this.

A council decision must have at least nine positive votes and can’t be stopped by the US, Britain, France, Russia or China to be approved. Diplomats think that 13 council members may support the measure, which would make the US use its veto.

The council member from Algeria had asked for a vote on Thursday afternoon to go along with a meeting about the Middle East at the United Nations.

The United States thinks that an independent Palestinian state should be created through talks between the involved groups, not at the United Nations.

“We don’t think making a decision in the Security Council will definitely help us to find a solution. ” “The US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Wednesday that there should be a plan for two separate states in the future. ”

The Palestinians are not a full member of the United Nations, but they are recognized as a state by most countries. This recognition was given by the UN in 2012. An application to be a full UN member must be okayed by the Security Council and then by at least two-thirds of the General Assembly.

Countries that prefer peace.

The UN Security Council supports the idea of two separate countries living next to each other with safe and agreed upon borders. The Palestinians want to have their own country in a part of the Middle East that is currently controlled by Israel.

Not much has happened to create a Palestinian state since Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.

The Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, has some control in the West Bank and works with Israel under the Oslo Accords. In 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinians are asking to become a full member of the UN. This comes after six months of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and while Israel is building more homes in the West Bank, which they have taken over.

Israel’s UN Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, said on Wednesday that the Security Council is spending its time supporting the creation of a Palestinian terrorist state.

Erdan said that if the Security Council says the Palestinian Authority can be a full member even though it supports terrorism and can’t control its land, it won’t be seen as legitimate anymore.

A group of 15 council members met twice last week to talk about letting new members join. They discussed the Palestinian application and agreed to make a report about it on Tuesday.

“About whether the application followed all the rules for joining. ” The Committee couldn’t agree on a suggestion to give to the Security Council, the report said. People had different opinions.

Countries who want to join the UN must love peace, follow the rules in the UN Charter, and be ready to uphold them.