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Assembly Grants Palestine Non-member Observer State Status
The General Assembly adopted a resolution granting to Palestine the status of non-member observer State in the United Nations. The vote was 138 for, 9 against, with 41 abstentions.
Mahmoud Abbas (at speaker's podium), President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the Assembly before the vote. Shown behind him (from left): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Vuk Jeremić, President of the Assembly's sixty-seventh session; and Jean-Jacques Graisse, Acting Head of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.
Mahmoud Abbas (at speaker's podium), President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the Assembly before the vote. Shown behind him (from left): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Vuk Jeremić, President of the Assembly's sixty-seventh session; and Jean-Jacques Graisse, Acting Head of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.
29 November 2012
United Nations, New York
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