Morocco welcomes adoption by UNGA of resolution backing admission of State of Palestine as full member of United Nations

Morocco on Friday welcomed the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution supporting the admission of the State of Palestine as a full-fledged member of the United Nations.

Through this resolution, the UN General Assembly confers additional rights to the State of Palestine within various bodies of theworld organization, Morocco’s Permanent Mission to the UN said, noting that the Kingdom was among the first co-sponsors of the text.

The text also urges the Security Council to give favorable consideration to full Palestinian membership.

Morocco, whose Sovereign, King Mohammed VI, chairs the Al-Quds Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, will continue, as it has always done, to push for the achievement of the two-State solution, with the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Al Quds East as capital, underlined the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom to the UN on X.