At
UN, Palestine
Sends
Resolution for
Observer State
Status, Vote
"Near Future"
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 8 --
Two days after
the US
presidential
(re) election,
Palestine's
Observer
Mission to the
UN on Thursday
sent to UN
member states
its
draft
resolution to
upgrade its
status in the
General
Assembly.
Inner
City Press has
obtained
a copy of
Palestine's
draft
resolution,
and
puts it online
here.
After
recalling and
stressing many
things, the
resolution
would grant
Observer State
status, and
hope that the
Security
Council grant
full
status.
In
the interim,
Palestine has
had win and
losses in
getting seated
in UN
bodies, as
Inner City
Press has
reported, from
the Arms
Trade Treaty
through the
Law of the Sea
to Geographical
Names.
Now,
Palestine has
written to
member states
with "note
verbal
MI.274/12
regarding a
draft
resolution on
the
enhancement of
the status of
Palestine in
the United
Nations
General
Assembly to be
considered by
the Assembly
at a date to
be announced
in the near
future."
How will the
US (and EU and
others)
respond? Watch
this site.
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