Palestine To Apply For Full UN Membership In January Next Year: Foreign Minister

by Abbas Adil

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said that Palestine would apply for full state membership at the United Nations in January next year.

Al-Maliki told the official radio station Voice of Palestine that he would file the application to upgrade Palestine’s status from an observer state to a full member state to the UN Security Council. 

To secure full state membership, the Palestinians need support from at least nine out of the UNSC’s 15 member states.

Maliki further noted that he would demand the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2334, and ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an official inquiry into Israeli settlement construction.

Less than a month before US President Donald Trump took office, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2334, calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem” al-Quds.

About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital. Palestine has been recognized by the UN as a non-member observer state since 2012.

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