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UN resolution A/67/L28 granting Palestine non-member observer state status passes, 138-9 with 41 abstaining.
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UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon speaks in favor of the resolution.
"I believe that Palestinians have the right to its own state. I believe that Israel has the right to peace and security," he says.
Ban says the resolution should be taken as an opportunity to restart the peace process.
"We must give new impetus to our collective efforts" toward a two-state solution, he says.
US Ambassador Susan Rice is speaking against the resolution. She says the resolution damages prospects for a peace process and does not establish a new benchmark for negotiations.
In short, she says the resolution is meaningless as far as the United States is concerned.
"This resolution does not establish that Palestine is a state."
"The recent conflict in Gaza is just the latest reminder that the absence of peace risks the presence of war."