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  Palestinians Win Statehood Upgrade at U.N.
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News DateThursday, November 29, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionUNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly voted to grant de facto recognition to a sovereign state of Palestine by upgrading the U.N. observer status of the Palestinian Authority from “entity” to “non-member state.”

There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions.

The overwhelming vote came minutes after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the world body to issue a “birth certificate” for a new nation of Palestine.

“Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel,” Abbas told the 193-nation assembly after receiving a standing ovation.

“The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine,” he said.

The assembly implicitly recognizes Palestinian statehood, despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinians by withholding funds for the West Bank government.

The move lifted the Palestinian Authority’s U.N. observer status from “entity” to “non-member state,” like the Vatican.

Israel, the United States and a handful of other members voted against what they see as a largely symbolic and counterproductive move by the Palestinians, which takes place on the anniversary of the assembly’s adoption of resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
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