{"id":50818,"date":"2024-04-12T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50818"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:48:46","slug":"no-security-council-consensus-on-palestinian-un-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50818","title":{"rendered":"No Security Council &#8216;consensus&#8217; on Palestinian UN membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Members of the UN Security Council failed to reach a consensus Thursday on a bid by Palestinians for full UN membership, meaning the longshot effort is now likely headed for a more formal council vote.<\/strong><\/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<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>In light of Israel&#8217;s offensive in Gaza, Palestinians revived a 2011 UN membership application last week, prompting the Security Council to launch a formal review process. This included the ad hoc committee that failed to reach consensus Thursday and was composed of the council&#8217;s member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the UN Security Council failed to reach a consensus Thursday on a bid by Palestinians for full UN membership, meaning the longshot effort is now likely headed for a more formal council vote. The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have lobbied for years to gain full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1114],"class_list":["post-50818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-no-security-council-consensus-on-palestinian-un-membership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50818","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=50818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50818\/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=50818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}