WASHINGTON — The United States announced that it will oppose the entry of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations during the vote in the Security Council of the HIM scheduled for this Thursday and defended that the best way to establish a Palestinian state is through direct negotiations with Israel.
The deputy spokesman for the US State Department, Vedant Patel, reported in a press conference that these “premature actions, even with the best intentions, will fail to establish a state for the Palestinian people.”
“The fastest path to creating a state for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with the support of the United States and other partners who share this goal,” he said.
Patel stressed that they have repeatedly asked the Palestinian Authority to “take the necessary measures” to prepare for the creation of a state in view of Gaza, where the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) currently has a presence, the terrorist group that rules and which launched an attack on Israel on October 7, may be “an integral part of the State envisioned” in said resolution.
Likewise, he assured that “there has not been unanimity” among the members of the Admission Commission to submit the proposal to the Security Council. “There are unresolved questions about whether it can meet the criteria to be considered a state,” he said.
The resolution must have the support of at least nine of the Council’s 15 members, including those with veto power, such as the United States. Once this procedure was completed, the resolution had to go through a second vote in the General Assembly, where it had to be approved by a two-thirds majority of the 193 member states.
The petition was initially presented in 2011, although the process was paralyzed and has been relaunched again after the Palestinian representative to the UN, Riad Mansur, requested in early April in a letter to the Secretary General, António Guterres, that the non-member observer status be reviewed.
Source: With information from Europa Press
