Request for admission of Palestine to UNESCO – Executive Board 177th session – Decision, draft resolution

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The Executive Board,

1. Recalling 167 EX/Decision 8.5, 172 EX/Decision 47 and 33 C/Resolution 69,

2. Having examined document 177 EX/60,

3. Decides to include this item in the agenda of its 182nd session;

4. Recommends that the General Conference adopt, at its 34th session, the following draft resolution:

“The General Conference,

Recalling the provisions of Article II of the Constitution of UNESCO relating to the admission of new Member States,

Recalling its previous resolutions and the decisions of the Executive Board regarding the request for the admission of Palestine to UNESCO,

Having examined document 34 C/25,

1. Expresses the hope that it will be able to consider this item favourably at its next session;

2. Decides to include this item in the agenda of its 35th session.”

Extracted from "Decisions Adopted by the Executive Board at its 177th session,

Paris 25 September-31 October 2007" dated 30 November 2007:

ftp://domino.un.org/pdfs/UNESCO_EX177.pdf