Saudi expresses regret UNSC failure to grant full membership to Palestine

The Foreign Ministry has expressed regret over the UN Security Council's failure to adopt a draft resolution granting full membership to Palestine, it said in a statement on X on Friday. It said that impeding the acceptance of a full membership for Palestine in the UNSC “contributes to the [ongoing] intransigence of the Israeli occupation and their continued violations of international law without deterrence”. The statement came after the US vetoed a draft resolution allowing Palestine to be a full-fledged member of the UN under grounds that a Palestinian statehood will only come through direct peace talks between Palestine and Israel.