  {"id":197540,"date":"2008-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=197540"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:25:42","slug":"auto-insert-197540","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-197540\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership of the Parliament of Palestine- IPU Governing Council decision\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"text-align:justify;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%2773%27%20height%3D%2765%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%2073%2065%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%2773%27%20height%3D%2765%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/48dc47cd7b25afbc852574e400561e85_image0.EMF\" border=\"0\" height=\"65px\" width=\"73px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"49%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>119th ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>AND RELATED MEETINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Geneva, 13-15.10.2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>Governing Council<\/u><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"49%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>CL\/183\/3(a)-R.2<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>Item 3<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"49%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>14 October 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>QUESTIONS RELATING TO IPU MEMBERSHIP AND OBSERVER STATUS<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(a) Requests for affiliation and reaffiliation to the Union<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>PALESTINE<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Following the approval by the 119th Assembly of the amendment to Article 3 of the Statutes, the Executive Committee submits the following recommendation to the Governing Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>CL\/183\/3(a)-R.2<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Annex<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>RECOMMENDATION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE SUBJECT<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>OF THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE PARLIAMENT OF PALESTINE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>IN THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>&quot;<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The Executive Committee, having examined at its 252<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;session (Geneva, 14 October 2008) the situation of the Parliament of Palestine, <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">recommends that the Governing Council adopt the following decision:<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>&quot;The Governing Council,<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Having examined<\/u><\/i><i>&nbsp;at its 183rd session (Geneva, 15 October 2008) the question of affiliation by the Parliament of Palestine to the Inter-Parliamentary Union,<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Noting<\/u><\/i><i>&nbsp;the opinion of the Executive Committee that the Parliament fulfils the conditions laid down in Article 3 of the Statutes for membership of the Union,<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Considering<\/u><\/i><i>&nbsp;that the Executive Committee&#8217;s opinion is predicated on the following elements:<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>(a)<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The United Nations has on numerous occasions recognized the aspirations and entitlement to statehood of Palestine;<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>(b)<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Palestine enjoys the status of Permanent Observer to the United Nations with substantial additional rights and privileges under UNGA resolution 52\/250;<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i>(c)<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The Palestinian Legislative Council is a Parliament that is constituted in conformity with the basic law of the Palestinian Authority and is endowed with legislative and oversight functions,<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Considering also<\/u><\/i><i>&nbsp;that the current situation on the Palestinian territories impedes the functioning of the Palestinian Legislative Council and that its participation in the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union may therefore, for the time being, be facilitated by the Palestine National Council,<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Decides<\/u><\/i><i>&nbsp;to admit the Parliament of Palestine as a Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union;<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:60px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<i><u>Annuls<\/u><\/i><i>, as a consequence, the decisions it adopted at its 117th and 163rd sessions regarding the participation of P<\/i><i>alestine as an observer in the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union&quot;.<\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>119th ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION AND RELATED MEETINGS Geneva, 13-15.10.2008 Governing Council CL\/183\/3(a)-R.2 Item 3 14 October 2008 QUESTIONS RELATING TO IPU MEMBERSHIP AND OBSERVER STATUS (a) Requests for affiliation and reaffiliation to the Union PALESTINE Following the approval by the 119th Assembly of the amendment to Article 3 of the Statutes, the Executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-197540\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2493,2893],"document-source":[3193],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[5405,2741],"entity":[2077],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-197540","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-decision","document-category-recommendation","document-source-inter-parliamentary-union-ipu","document-subject-plo-palestine","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-non-governmental-organization","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/197540","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\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/197540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=197540"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=197540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}