United Nations: India voted in favor of the draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which states that Palestine is eligible to become a full member of this global body.

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United Nations: India on Friday voted in favor of the draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which states that Palestine deserves to become a full member of this global body and should be given membership. An emergency meeting took place on the morning of a special session of the 193-member UN General Assembly, where the United Arab Emirates, President of the General Assembly for the month of May, adopted the Arab Group’s resolution ‘Admission of New Members to the United Nations’ in support of Palestine’s full membership in the world body. presented.

143 members voted in favor of the proposal
143 members, including India, voted in favor of the resolution, 9 voted against while 25 members abstained. After the voting, the UNGA building echoed with applause. The resolution states that “Palestine is eligible to become a member of the United Nations” in accordance with Article 4 of the UN Charter and “should therefore be granted membership.”

India had said this
Let us tell you that in the beginning of May, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj had said that Palestine’s application for membership in the United Nations was not approved by the Security Council due to the veto in the UNSC. Kamboj had said, “I would like to say here first that keeping in mind India’s long-standing position, we hope that it will be reconsidered at the appropriate time and Palestine’s efforts to become a member of the United Nations Will get support.

Palestine wrote a letter to the United Nations Secretary General
It is noteworthy that, in April, Palestine sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres requesting that its application for full membership of the UN be reconsidered. A state’s application for full membership of the United Nations must be approved by both the Security Council and the General Assembly, with a two-thirds majority of members present and voting required to admit the state as a full member. Is. Last month, the US vetoed a Security Council resolution to grant full UN membership to Palestine.

Know the current situation
Palestine is currently a “non-member observer state” in the United Nations, a status it was granted by the General Assembly in 2012. This status allows Palestine to participate in the world body’s proceedings but cannot vote on resolutions.