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Israel declines to accept Palestine's Unesco membership
Tuesday November 01, 2011 10:26:49 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Tel Aviv: Israel has refused to accept Unesco's decision to grant full
membership to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and
threatened retaliatory measures.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry Monday called Palestinian accession
to the Unesco "a unilateral manoeuver" that would threaten
Arab-Israeli peace talks.
The decision will not turn the Palestinian Authority into a
legitimate State but will rather create additional obstacles to a
resumption of the talks, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a
statement.
Tel Aviv also warned that it would adjust its position toward
further cooperation with Unesco.
Earlier Monday, the US threatened to cut off funding for Unesco in
response to Palestine's accession.
Palestine's membership in the UN cultural body comes a month after
it filed a statehood membership bid in the UN, which was later
blocked by a US veto in the Security Council.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said that the entry
into Unesco was not related to the UN membership bid.
"Our accession to Unesco is a process that has lasted for 22
years, we started it in 1989. Each year the ambassador made the
requests and now we could see the result of our efforts," Al-Malki
said at Unesco headquarters. "It is not and has never been
connected to the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN."
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