| UN votes for Palestinian ‘birth certificate’ |
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The UN General Assembly voted on Thursday to upgrade the status of the
Palestinians from that of observer “entity” to that of a non-member
observer “state”. The assembly voted for the move by 138 to nine with 41 abstentions after Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, called upon the UN to issue the Palestinians their “birth certificate” as a nation. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, denounced Mr Abbas’s speech as “hostile and poisonous”. http://link.ft.com/r/A1TNOO/ |
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
UN votes for Palestinian "birth certificate"
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