Full text: Palestinian application to join UN

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Full text: Palestinian application to join UN


Published yesterday (updated) 24/09/2011 17:39




The following is the full text of the Palestinian leadership's letter to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon requesting that Palestine be admitted as a member state of the United Nations.

"Excellency,

I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.

"This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.

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http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=423246


Wow! Abbas and the PA are calling for the implementation of the 1947 Partition Plan in their application to the UN. The borders for that plan aren't the 1967 lines. Here's the map: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/partmap.html

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1. I'd like to know if anyone here is for the UNSCR voting in favor...

...of the PA bid to join the UN based on the 1947 Partition Plan.

As the link in the OP shows, the borders go well beyond 1967 and intrude into internationally recognized Israeli territory.