UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council "reconsider the matter favourably."
The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member - a move that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state - after the United States vetoed it in the U.N. Security Council last month.
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