The meaning of the vote on the Palestinian membership resolution in the United Nations General Assembly

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, the assembly Yesterday, the General Assembly of the United Nations, with the positive vote of 143 countries, approved the draft of Palestine’s full membership in this organization and advised the Security Council to reconsider its policy in this field.

Although the adoption of this resolution is not binding and does not complete the process of Palestinian membership in the United Nations, it will have some practical and symbolic consequences.

The first consequence of the approval of this resolution is that the UN Security Council is again obliged to review Palestine’s full membership in this organization. Voting for the full membership of the Palestinian government in the United Nations for the second time in a row in the last two months, in itself shows the failure of the efforts of the Israeli and American regimes to prevent the rights of the Palestinian people.

At the end of April 2024, Palestine’s request for full membership in the United Nations was once again discussed in the Security Council after 13 years, and while 15 member countries of this council voted in favor of this resolution and the United Kingdom and Switzerland had abstained from it, and the US veto prevented this resolution from reaching its final approval. With the approval of this new resolution of the General Assembly, the Security Council will probably be required to vote on this matter soon. America has also vetoed Security Council resolutions to stop the war in Gaza 4 times. The start of the new process has put additional pressure on America to support Israel unconditionally.

The history of Palestine’s efforts to join the United Nations

Palestinian institutions’ membership in UN subsidiary structures began in 1974 with the observer membership of the “Palestine Liberation Organization” in UNESCO. 15 years later, in 1989, the organization requested to upgrade its membership to UNESCO as a Member State, but the application was delayed until 2011. In 2011, the Palestinian Authority requested full membership in the United Nations.

This request was approved by 138 member states out of a total of 193. The members of the assembly agreed (71%), 41 members abstained (21% of the members) and 9 members opposed it (4.6% of the members). In this way, the Palestinian Authority was upgraded from a non-member observer status to a “permanent observer member”. In the United Nations, yesterday’s voting shows that the views of different countries towards the Palestinian cause have become more positive.

143 members of the General Assembly The request voted in favor (75%), 25 countries abstained (13%) and only 9 countries (4.6%) opposed it. In fact, both the number of countries demanding full membership of Palestine in the United Nations has increased and the governments hesitant in this regard have halved in the last 13 years.

On the other hand, a look at the opponents of this request shows that, except for the Zionist regime, 8 other governments are against the full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, or are in the category of staunch supporters of this regime (America, Argentina, Hungary, Czech Republic) or are small governments that should To find them, he looked around the geography map with a magnifying glass (Micronesia, Nauru, New Guinea and Palau). In the meantime, Canada has also left the group of opponents of the said request in 2011. In general, it can be said that these conditions show that supporting the Zionist regime has a very high cost for the United States and has made this country isolated in the world.

Benefits of full membership for Palestinians

Currently only Palestine and the Vatican have this level of membership. Although permanent observer members have the right to access all UN documents, they do not have the right to vote in the voting.

On the other hand, until The official and full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, from the point of view of many organizations affiliated to the United Nations, the Zionist regime is considered the only regime that has the authority to pursue the interests of the Palestinians. In fact, in many cases, Israel succeeded in blocking international initiatives to fulfill the rights of the Palestinian people by resorting to reasons such as the fact that the Palestinian organization acts as an internal structure within Israel’s sovereignty and does not have the necessary dignity to manage foreign and international affairs. Slow down.

Also, another effect of full membership in the United Nations is that members can use the structures of this organization. To follow up on your demands, use them directly. For example, the Palestinian Authority has never been able to complain about the actions of the Zionist regime to the United Nations structures, and when a complaint has been made about Israel to the Security Council, other member governments have led it.

Also, if this happens, the different governments of the world should provide the basis for the recognition of the Palestinian state in their internal politics. This will mean the establishment of Palestinian embassies in different countries.

Al-Aqsa Storm Revival of Palestinian Cause

Another very important point that increases the importance of Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations is that although the Palestinian Authority as a Palestinian compromise party will win the benefits resulting from this development, but firstly, the Palestinian nation’s enjoyment of this right is definitely better than not having it; Because polls show that if parliamentary elections are held throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip like in 2006, groups aligned with the resistance will have a high chance of winning and forming a cabinet in the self-governing organization. However, it is still very difficult to imagine holding elections in a situation where there are many obstacles in the way of Palestinian-Palestinian reconciliation.

Hamas’ reaction to the approval of Palestinian membership in the UN General Assembly