Security Council Discusses The Palestine State

by aheed411 in Issues, July 6, 2011

The head of the Security Council of the United Nations that the Council intends to later this month to discuss the possibility to become a Palestine state member of the international organization, comes in light of the determination of the Palestinians – and with the Arabs – to go to the General Assembly the UN in September / September next to Neil international recognition of Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.

According to the tentative schedule of the Security Council during the month of July present, open debate on the issue of the Middle East scheduled to take place on the 26th of this month.

In commenting on the subject, said German Ambassador Peter Tighe – who is president of the Security Council for this month – “I think that (time to broach the subject) would be appropriate to explore the various options that may exist on the Palestinian side,” noting in this regard to the forthcoming meeting of the Quartet of mediators in the Middle East.

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It is expected to meet on July 11 the current parties to the Quartet – the United States and the European Union and the United Nations and Russia – in Washington that want to revive peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Veto
In the context of relevant, the head of the General Assembly of the United Nations Joseph Deiss said last week that a Palestinian state can not get the membership of the international organization without the support of the Security Council, which owns the United States the right of veto.

But he stressed that the United States use of the veto will not eliminate the Palestinians’ attempts to obtain recognition of the state and the full membership of the United Nations.

Des said at a news conference that “the rules for membership of the United Nations are known, we are obligated to giving in it, and the right of veto within those rules.”

The Charter of the United Nations The General Assembly recognizes that the new members, but the recommendation of the Security Council, which comprises 15 countries with five of them – Britain, France, China, Russia and the United States – permanent membership and veto power. The determination of Palestinian
On the other side, President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian intention to move forward in their attempt to declare the United Nations in September / September next state based on the 1967 borders, if the deadlock in the negotiations, Israel continued to reject international terms of reference did not stop the settlements.

Some Arab diplomats in New York that Palestinians can bypass the Security Council and go directly to the General Assembly – which includes 192 countries – to obtain approval for admission to the United Nations.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stressed his opposition to the Palestinian effort to obtain recognition of their independent state, also criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s move as a “symbolic acts to isolate Israel in the United Nations.”

Committee on Freedom of
On a related issue with the Palestinian issue, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon that he could not provide a date certain to announce the findings of a committee established to investigate the incident flotilla last year, which was heading to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza residents trapped.

The spokesman said in a news conference on Tuesday: “I do not think we got to the stage that will be the delivery of the report, when this happens it is obvious that we are we will release it.”

It is known that a committee headed by New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, the former was assigned to investigate the Israeli attack on the fleet that left nine people, all of Turkish nationality.