A specialized United Nations committee will review whether Palestine will be granted full state member status in the UN this month, according to Vanessa Frazier, the UN Ambassador of Malta and Security Council's president for April.
“The council has decided that this deliberation has to take place during the month of April. That is the timeline — April 2024,” Frazier said at a news conference Monday.
After a closed-door session Monday, the UN Security Council referred this request for Palestinian statehood to the Committee on the Admission of New Members, she said.
The committee held their first meeting on Monday to begin discussions regarding Palestine’s renewed application, she said.
The Palestinian Mission to the UN first put in a request to be recognized as a full member state in 2011. It was granted "non-member observer state" status in November 2012.
The US is historically keen on letting the Israelis and Palestinians decide the issue between themselves.