{"id":202965,"date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202965"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:59:20","slug":"auto-insert-202965","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202965\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO General Conference admits Palestine as UNESCO Member State – UNESCO press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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General Conference admits Palestine as UNESCO Member State<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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UNESCO\u2019s General Conference today voted to admit Palestine as a Member State of the Organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For its membership to take effect*, Palestine must sign and ratify UNESCO\u2019s Constitution<\/u><\/a>\u00a0which is open for signature in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom in London. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palestine\u2019s entry will bring the number of UNESCO\u2019s Member States to 195.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The vote was carried by\u00a0<\/strong>107 votes in favour of admission and 14 votes against, with 52 abstentions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Admission to UNESCO for states that are not members of the United Nations requires a recommendation by the Organization\u2019s Executive Board and a two thirds majority vote in favour by the General Conference of Member States present and voting (abstentions are not considered as votes).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The General Conference consists of the representatives of the States Members of the Organization. It meets every two years, and is attended by Member States and Associate Members, together with observers for non-Member States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each Member State has one vote, irrespective of its size or the extent of its contribution to the budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The General Conference determines the policies and the main lines of work of the Organization. Its duty is to set the programmes and the budget of UNESCO. It also elects the Members of the Executive Board and appoints, every four years, the Director-General.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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* c.f UNESCO Constitution, Article XV, on “Entry into force”<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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31.10.2011
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Voting result:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No<\/strong>: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sweden, United States of America, Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abstentions<\/strong>: Albania, Andorra, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cook Islands, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Georgia, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Latvia, Liberia, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, Macedonia, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Zambia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes<\/strong>: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Sant Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Absent<\/strong>: Antigua and Barbuda, Central African Republic, Comoros, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Madagascar, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Confederated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Niue, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNESCO_Pal-MemberState General Conference admits Palestine as UNESCO Member State UNESCO\u2019s General Conference today voted to admit Palestine as a Member State of the Organization. For its membership to take effect*, Palestine must sign and ratify UNESCO\u2019s Constitution\u00a0which is open for signature in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom in London. Palestine\u2019s entry […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2437,2777,2433,1329,4371,2769,2805,3745,4389],"document-source":[2497],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,2441,5405,2741],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6543,6542,6541,6539,6538],"class_list":["post-202965","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-chinese-text","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-russian-text","document-category-spanish-text","document-category-video","document-category-voting-record","document-category-webcast","document-source-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-plo-palestine","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-chinese","document-language-english","document-language-french","document-language-russian","document-language-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/202965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/202965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317996,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/202965\/revisions\/317996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=202965"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=202965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}