The UN Security Council Committee has announced it has not reached consensus for Palestinian UN Membership, a membership that would afford it internationally recognized statehood status. Algeria plans on submitting its own version today, but the U.S. has signaled its intentions to veto such a measure.
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The U.N. Security Council’s committee on new members reported on Tuesday that it could not reach a consensus on the revived application for full Palestinian U.N. membership.
Algeria, the Arab world’s de facto representative on the council, has drafted its own resolution and plans to put the application up for a decisive vote on Thursday afternoon. Washington has suggested that it would veto such an application.
The Committee on the Admission of New Members, which includes representatives of all the members of the Security Council, met twice last week to discuss the Palestinian application, which was first filed in 2011.