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Palestine at the UN

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 74th Session of the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York on September 26, 2019. (Timothy A. Clark/AFP)
June 7, 2020, 12:49 pm
Palestinians advancing UN resolution against annexation, Israel says
So far no draft of non-binding General Assembly resolution circulated; Israel ‘prepared to defend any decision,’ ambassador vows, slamming Ramallah’s ‘political terrorism’
By Raphael Ahren
View of the United Nations General Assembly during a vote on the US-imposed embargo on Cuba on November 7, 2019. (Evan Schneider/UN)
December 4, 2019, 1:49 am
In surprise change, 13 countries vote against pro-Palestine UN resolution
States led by Germany change their voting pattern in favor of Israel, opposing Division of Palestinian Rights, although motion still passes by wide margin
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in Ramallah on November 29, 2012, to support Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's bid for UN recognition of statehood. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
December 27, 2018, 1:17 pm
For first time since 2011, Palestine to apply for full UN membership
Though bid is doomed to fail due to expected US veto, Israeli envoy attacks Ramallah for ‘destructive policies that have encouraged recent terror ‎attacks’
By Raphael Ahren
B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, left, next to Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour, at a session of the UN Security Council, October 18, 2018. (Courtesy UN WebTv)
October 18, 2018, 7:40 pm
At UN, B’Tselem chief blasts Israel; envoy calls him a ‘collaborator’
Head of dovish human rights group urges Security Council to act against Jewish state, which he compares to apartheid-era South Africa
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour addresses the UN General Assembly, October 16, 2018 (UN webtv)
October 17, 2018, 12:56 am
Defying US, UN gives ‘Palestine’ extra rights so it can head major bloc in 2019
General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to grant additional powers to Ramallah for 12 months of its presidency of 134-nation Group of 77; Israel, US and Australia opposed
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian protesters wave UN and national flags in front of a fabiricated giant refugee card of their President Mahmud Abbas, during a protest against the US decision earlier this year to cut funds to UN aid to Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on September 26, 2018. (AFP/Musa Al SHAER)
September 27, 2018, 7:02 pm
Palestine confirmed to head massive bloc of developing countries at UN
Egypt’s Sissi hands over to Abbas the presidency of G77, a group of 134 nations comprising some 80 percent of the world’s population
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, left, speaks to reporters while Palestinian minister of foreign affairs Riyad al-Maliki looks on following a meeting in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
September 27, 2018, 7:52 am
As Trump readies peace plan, Palestinians hold NY meet to push an alternative
Ramallah unimpressed with Trump’s support for two-state solution, says ‘there is nothing new about it’; foreign dignitaries from 40 countries attend PA confab
By Raphael Ahren
The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, November 29, 2012 (AP/Kathy Willens)
November 30, 2017, 6:07 pm
Jerusalem ignores the UN’s forgotten partition plan of 2012 at its peril
As Israel hails General Assembly’s Resolution 181 as a harbinger of independence in 1947, few note that the same body overwhelmingly endorsed Palestinian statehood 5 years ago
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon addresses the Security Council on October 19, 2016. (UN Photo)
February 11, 2017, 7:45 am
Israel hails new era at UN as US blocks Palestinian from key post
Nikki Haley halts appointment of former Palestinian PM as United Nations envoy to Libya; ex-US ambassador Shapiro calls move ‘stunningly dumb’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 1, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
September 7, 2015, 1:53 am
Abbas to declare end of Oslo peace process – report
PA president said set to tell UN General Assembly this month that failure to establish Palestinian state voids past agreements
By ToI Staff
The row of flags in front of the UN General Assembly at the agency headquarters in New York on September 16, 2010. (CC BY-SA Yerpo, Wikimedia Commons.)
August 26, 2015, 8:53 am
Vatican tells Palestinians it won’t join UN flag bid
Holy See says ‘no thanks’ after Ramallah submits draft resolution for both non-member observer states to fly flags outside New York headquarters
By ToI Staff and AP
United Nations headquarters in New York City. (CC BY-WorldIslandInfo.com/Flickr/File)
August 26, 2015, 2:16 am
Palestinians, Vatican may get to raise flags at the UN
PA asks General Assembly to allow ‘non-member observer states’ to fly flag at world body’s NY headquarters
By Cara Anna
The UN Security Council voting on a resolution on Palestinian statehood on December 30, 2014. The resolution was voted down. (UN/Evan Schneider)
March 25, 2015, 12:52 pm
Without US cover at UN, Israel could face diplomatic avalanche
Already violating countless resolutions, Jerusalem has little to fear immediately from a Security Council vote on Palestine. But there would be painful repercussions in the long run
By Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Flash90)
January 18, 2015, 8:54 pm
Rivlin calls on Abbas to renew peace talks
President urges Palestinian counterpart to meet in Jerusalem and call off ICC suit, UN statehood bid
By AFP
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands (Vincent van Zeijst/Wikimedia Commons/File)
January 17, 2015, 6:34 am
US pans ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’
Washington says Palestine not a state, not eligible to join International Criminal Court
By AFP, AP and ToI Staff
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