The UN Security Council is gearing up for another show down likely to feature a US veto, this time over the question of full Palestinian membership of the United Nations.
Palestine’s last bid for full membership, in 2011, fell at the first hurdle because they did not get the requisite nine votes on the Security Council. "But we are going to continue to find a path to bring a two-state solution to the Palestinians that provides peace for Israel and a state for Palestine," Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield told reporters.
Diplomats would not be drawn on the details. But even if the other permanent members, like France and the UK, are ambivalent about Palestinian membership, they are unlikely to resort to their rarely-deployed vetoes, opting instead to vote in favour or most likely, abstain.The US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood called it"unfortunate" that members would push ahead with a vote in the absence of consensus.
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