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UN backs Palestine’s bid for membership: How did your country vote?

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to the UN, addresses delegates [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly voted to support a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reconsider the matter favourably”.

Memberships can only be decided by the UN Security Council, and last month, the US vetoed a bid for full membership.

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