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- Flag of Palestine in the UN headquarters, Albania votes pro
The General Assembly of the United Nations voted with 119 votes in favor, 8 against and 45 abstentions a resolution presented by some countries of the EU and the Arab League, at the Palace of Glassy flutter and the flag of Palestine and that of the Vatican, the countries that are not members of the UN.
In the wings of 119 countries that voted array and Albania, together with Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden and a number of other countries.
While between 8 countries that voted against the resolution were the United States, Canada, Australia and of course Israel.
What stands out in this vote is that among the 45 countries that abstained were the major European powers such as Germany and the UK and all other member states had the European Union.
Alignment of Albania on the side of the countries that voted in favor of waving the flag of Palestine and the Vatican, after a vote of only two states, was greeted with surprise in Tirana, but sources from the Foreign Ministry informed that this vote does not mean Palestine UN membership, but simply setting its flag at the headquarters of this organization.
The same sources confirmed for Top Channel that the vote and the resolution can be used in the future as a precedent to bring a similar resolution on Kosovo, so that the flag of the country may wave at the headquarters of the United Nations New York.