Security Council Fails to Recommend Full United Nations Membership for State of Palestine, Owing to Veto Cast by United States
Meetings Coverage
Security Council
9609th Meeting (PM)
SC/15670
18 April 2024
(Note: The final summary of this meeting will be available at a later time.)
The Security Council today blocked Palestine's bid to become a full member of the United Nations due to a United States veto on a draft resolution that would have recommended the granting of such status.
The proposal, submitted by Algeria, received 12 votes in favour, with the United States casting a negative vote and Switzerland and the United Kingdom abstaining. A Council resolution requires at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes from its five permanent members — China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States — to pass. The Algerian draft failed, owing to a negative vote cast by a permanent member.
If adopted, the draft would have had the 15-member Council recommend to the 193-member General Assembly that "the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations".
In 2011, Palestine submitted an application to become a full UN Member State. Although that aspiration did not materialize, it obtained the status of a non-member observer State in November 2012 through an Assembly vote of 138 in favour to nine against (Canada, Czech Republic, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Panama, Palau, United States), with 41 abstentions.
An application for admission to UN membership must be approved by the Council before being forwarded to the Assembly, where the matter requires at least two-thirds support to pass.
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