Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland is wholeheartedly supportive of Palestinian efforts to secure full membership of the United Nations.

On 2 April 2024, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine wrote a letter requesting that the Security Council give renewed consideration to Palestine’s application for UN membership as originally submitted in 2011.

Admission to UN membership is a substantive issue and therefore requires the agreement of at least nine of the Council’s 15 members and the veto applies. This follows a vote in November 2012 in the UN General Assembly during which members were asked to support or reject a resolution to accord Palestine ‘Non-member Observer State’ status at the UN. Ireland voted in favour of this resolution in 2012.

The Government is clear that the way to achieve lasting peace and stability in the region is through implementation of a two-State solution, with Israeli and Palestinian states living side-by-side, in peace and security.