According to Xinhua News Agency, on May 10, local time, the 10th emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution with 143 votes in favor, 9 votes against and 25 abstentions, determining that the State of Palestine meets the membership status of the United Nations under the Charter of the United Nations and should be admitted as a member of the United Nations. Which countries voted against? What is the significance of this vote? How many steps is there for Palestine to join the UN?
What resolution did >> pass?
Palestine is eligible for membership in the United Nations,
The observer for Pakistan choked up several times before the vote
On May 10, local time, the United Nations General Assembly held an emergency special session and adopted a resolution on Palestine's accession to the United Nations, confirming that Palestine meets the membership of the United Nations as stipulated in the UN Charter.
Mansour, the permanent observer of Palestine to the United Nations, called on countries to vote in favor before the vote and choked up several times. "I have stood on this podium hundreds of times in the past, but none of them have been more important than this one, and this is a historic vote," he said. We want peace, we want freedom. Palestine will one day take its rightful place in the group of free nations. ”
Mansour said the new Israeli-Palestinian conflict has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, injured another 80,000 and displaced more than 2 million. "Palestinians in Gaza have been driven into corners of the Gaza Strip, and bombs and bullets are flying everywhere and they are being pushed to the brink," he said. Despite the attacks and destruction, the Palestinian flag flies high in Palestine and throughout the world, becoming a symbol for all those who believe in freedom and just rule. ”
"To vote yes is to vote for the survival of Palestine, not against any country, but against those who seek to deprive Palestine of its right to statehood," Mansour said. ”
After the adoption of the resolution, the audience burst into warm applause, and during the explanatory statements after the vote, the representatives of many countries to the United Nations left their seats to shake hands and congratulate Mansour, the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations.
Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said in his speech on 10 June that China welcomes the adoption of the resolution and supports the Security Council's reconsideration of Palestine's application for membership in the United Nations. The United States has repeatedly exercised its veto power on the Palestinian-Israeli issue and unreasonably obstructed the efforts of the international community to resolve the long-standing historical injustice suffered by Palestine.
What's the point of >>?
Palestine will not be allowed to become a full Member State
It is only to recognize the eligibility of Palestine to join the Union
The resolution found that Palestine met the membership of the United Nations under Article 4 of the Charter of the United Nations and that there was general support among the States Members of the United Nations for the admission of Palestine to the United Nations.
The resolution expresses "deep regret and concern" at the rejection by a permanent member of the Security Council of Palestine's application for accession to the United Nations and recommends that the Council reconsider Palestine's application for membership "from a favorable perspective".
The resolution confers on Palestine a number of new rights and privileges, including serving on the Main Committees of the General Assembly and allowing Palestine to participate in United Nations and international conferences convened by the United Nations, but without the right to vote.
According to the analysis, Palestine is currently an observer state of the United Nations, and this resolution will not make Palestine a full member, but only recognizes Palestine's eligibility to join the United Nations, so it is more symbolic. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but they carry the moral force of the international community. The resolution was supported by 143 countries, which sent a clear signal of the broad consensus of the international community on Palestinian statehood.
>> who voted no?
United States, Israel, Argentina, Czech Republic, Hungary and 4 Pacific island countries
The tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly, by an overwhelming vote of 143 in favour, 9 against and 25 abstentions, adopted a resolution that determined that the State of Palestine met its membership in the United Nations under the Charter of the United Nations and should be admitted to membership in the United Nations. Who voted 9 against?
According to the report, 143 countries including China, France, Russia, and Japan voted in favor on the same day, 9 countries including the United States and Israel voted against, and 25 countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, and Canada abstained.
It is reported that the United States, Israel, Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea voted against. Among them, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea are all Pacific island countries.
The results of the vote show that the vast majority of countries around the globe support Palestine for full membership of the United Nations, and many countries are disturbed by the rising death toll in Gaza and fear a large-scale Israeli assault on the southern city of Rafah. Britain and Ukraine abstained, Japan and France voted in favor, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has made it impossible for allies to support the United States and Israel.
In fact, the differences between the United States and Israel have also widened, with the Biden administration saying that Israel's attack on Palestine with U.S. military aid could violate international law. Biden has also previously warned that Israel will stop military aid if it continues to attack Rafah, and Israeli polls have shown that more and more people support the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the only way to keep the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire agreement moving forward.
The result of the vote made Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations, Erdan, so angry that he shoved the UN Charter into a shredder in protest. "The day when the United Nations is appeased to murderous dictators and undermine the UN Charter will go down in history," Erdan said. You are welcoming a terrorist State to the United Nations. You have opened the doors of the United Nations to modern Nazism. ”
For his part, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wood said: "Sustained peace in the region can only be achieved through a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel. The quickest way to end the conflict is to reach an agreement to free the hostages and suspend the conflict. ”
How many steps are there to >> Pakistan to join the United Nations?
The Security Council must first approve and then receive two-thirds of the support of the UN General Assembly
The State of Palestine was proclaimed on 15 November 1988 and has since been officially recognized by 138 States. On 29 November 2012, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution granting Palestine the status of observer state to the United Nations. How can Palestine become a Member of the United Nations?
According to the rules of the United Nations for the admission of new members, a country applying for membership in the United Nations must be recommended by the Security Council and then decided by the General Assembly of the United Nations before it can be admitted to the United Nations.
At least 9 of the 15 members of the Security Council must vote in favour and none of the 5 permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) vote against it in order to adopt any proposal to admit new members. If the Security Council recommends the admission of the country, the recommendation will be forwarded to the General Assembly for its consideration, and a two-thirds majority vote is required for the General Assembly to admit a new member. Membership took effect on the same day that the General Assembly resolution admitting new Members was adopted.
This means that if Palestine wants to join the United Nations, it will need the consent of the Security Council and the support of a two-thirds majority in the United Nations General Assembly, but the United States, which has a veto power in the Security Council, is Israel's closest ally.
The biggest obstacle to Palestine's entry into the United Nations is the obstruction of the United States and Israel. In the UN vote, the United States has repeatedly exercised its veto power to safeguard Israel's interests, and has even used withdrawal from the UN as a means of coercion. Despite the differences between the United States and Israel in the recent conflict in Gaza, the United States will not abandon Israel.
Will >> United States agree?
Warning of another veto of "statehood can only be achieved through negotiations between the two sides"
Palestine is currently an observer State of the United Nations. In September 2011, President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine submitted an application to then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the country to become a full member of the UN. At that time, due to the hardline stance of the United States on the issue, the Palestinians suspended the application for more than a decade.
In early April this year, at the request of Palestine, the 15 members of the Security Council considered Palestine's application for membership in the United Nations for the first time in 13 years and voted 12 in favour, 1 against and 2 abstentions on a draft resolution allowing Palestine to join the United Nations as a full Member State. The draft was not adopted because the United States, a permanent member, exercised its veto power.
If Pakistan applies to join the United Nations again, the United States will veto Palestine's entry into the United Nations, despite the expectation of the Security Council, but with the support of the majority of countries, it will undoubtedly be a big victory for Palestine.
Explaining the reason for the negative vote, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wood said that this does not mean that the United States opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, but the United States believes that Palestinian statehood can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the two sides. "There is no other way to guarantee Israel's security and future as a democratic Jewish state," he said. There is no other way to guarantee that Palestinians can live in peace and dignity in their own country. ”
The United States has warned that it is likely to be vetoed again in the Security Council. "Today's resolution does not address the concerns raised in the Security Council in April about Palestine's application for membership," Wood said. If the Security Council were to reconsider Palestine's application for membership as a result of that resolution, the result would be similar. ”
Huashang Daily Gale News reporter Guo Ji compiled and edited Dong Lin