{"id":50693,"date":"2024-04-09T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50693"},"modified":"2024-04-09T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:37:56","slug":"security-council-reviews-palestinian-bid-for-full-un-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50693","title":{"rendered":"Security Council reviews Palestinian bid for full UN membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Security Council said Monday that it would decide this month on the Palestinians&#8217; bid for full UN membership, with the longshot campaign unlikely to survive US opposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the Gaza war rages on into its seventh month, the council&#8217;s move was described as &#8220;historic&#8221; by the Palestinians, but angrily denounced by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Maltese Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, who holds the rotating presidency of the council, said that &#8220;the council has decided that this deliberation has to take place during the month of April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any request to become a UN member state must first pass through the Security Council &#8212; where Israel&#8217;s ally the United States wields a veto &#8212; and then be endorsed by the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have lobbied for years to gain full membership, which would amount to recognition of Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Security Council said Monday that it would decide this month on the Palestinians&#8217; bid for full UN membership, with the longshot campaign unlikely to survive US opposition. As the Gaza war rages on into its seventh month, the council&#8217;s move was described as &#8220;historic&#8221; by the Palestinians, but angrily denounced by Israel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1088],"class_list":["post-50693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-security-council-reviews-palestinian-bid-for-full-un-membership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}