NAM states back Palestinian statehood
IRAN: Representatives of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states
have voiced support for a bid seeking recognition of a Palestinian
statehood at the United Nations, Press TV reports.
During a ministerial meeting in the Serbian capital city Belgrade on
Tuesday, all 118 NAM member countries said that they would back the
Palestinian Authority (PA)’s bid for Palestine’s UN membership to be
presented later this month on the “basis of the borders of the June 4,
1967 with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.”
“We will continue to support the Palestinian endeavours during the
66th session of the General Assembly for the recognition of the State of
Palestine on the basis of the borders of the 4th of June 1967 with East
Jerusalem as its capital, and to seek its admission as a full member in
the United Nations,” Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said
during a press conference at the end of the two-day meeting in Belgrade.
Amr, who chaired the meeting, said that most of the NAM member
countries recognize the Palestinian state and will vote in favor of the
Palestinian bid for UN membership when the UN General Assembly meets
later this month.
More than 100 countries have so far officially recognized Palestine
as a sovereign state based on the 1967 borders, the boundaries that
existed before the Israeli regime captured and annexed East al-Quds
(Jerusalem), the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials
have been campaigning to achieve UN recognition for an independent state
based on the pre-1967 borders at the UN General Assembly meeting in
later September.
The United States, however, has repeatedly threatened to veto the
PA’s bid at the United Nations Security Council.
The United States cannot block the UN General Assembly vote for the
change of Palestine’s status in the world body from entity to state, but
it can later veto the move at the Security Council.
American governments have made it a routine practice to veto any UN
measure that even criticizes violations by the Israeli regime. Press TV
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