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Becky Sullivan

What to know about the U.N. vote on whether to admit Palestinians as full members

The United Nations Security Council met Thursday to debate whether the U.N. should admit the State of Palestine as a full voting member. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.N. Security Council failed to pass a vote on the Palestinian Authority's bid to join the United Nations as a full member with a final vote of 12 to 1 with an additional member abstaining.

The United States, one of the Security Council's five permanent members, tanked the bid with its veto, unsurprisingly. Officials indicated that the proposal didn't have U.S. support before the vote took place this evening.

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