The United States vetoed the resolution to allow Palestine to join United Nations Member States.
The US blocked the draft of the resolution that would allow the UN General Assembly to vote on Palestine's request to become a full member state of the UN.
UN News reported that the draft resolution was among the shortest in the history of the Security Council.
The resolution says, “The Security Council, having examined the application of the State of Palestine for admission to the United Nations, recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations.”
For a draft resolution to pass, the Council must have at least nine members in favour and none of its 5 permanent members using their veto power.
In the 15-member Security Council the Palestine membership resolution got 12 votes in favor, two abstentions from UK and Switzerland and opposition from US.
According to The New York Times, the Palestine representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, described their full-member request as an effort ‘to take our rightful place among the community of nations.’
After the vote on resolution Mansour expressed his disappointment and said, “Our right to self-determination is a natural right, a historical right, to live in our homeland Palestine as an independent state that is free and that is sovereign.”
