But full membership of UNESCO could mean a statutory cutoff of all contributions from the United States, fees, and voluntary.
Existing legislation of the United States appears to make the cut off money to the United Nations and its agencies, if they grant "membership as a State to an organization or group, that does not the international recognized attributes of sovereignty" and introduced more legislation in the same direction. 22 Percent of UNESCO is the United States.
The first registration came in a vote of 58-nation UNESCO executive board. Full membership would have to be approved by 193 States General Conference, which corresponds to later in this month. Its offer for full recognition to the Security Council of the United Nations submitted on Sept. the Palestinians 24, while international politicians resume Israeli Palestinian peace talks.
"We need to be solved the problem of the State of Palestine in the UN system", said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations. UNESCO, Mr Mansour said, "is a place where we can purchase our rightful place among the international community as a full member."
Membership would allow Palestinian officials seek protection of the Palestinian historical sites of the Cultural Organization, said other officials. This would result in further conflict with Israel. For example some of these sites in East Jerusalem, annexed in Israel.
The Board approved a draft resolution to the membership, sponsored by several Arab States, through a 40-to 4 vote. Fourteen delegations included, including those of Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, while the American delegation, Germany, Latvia and Romania joined against the measure. (Israel is not currently on the Board where membership is sitting.) Russia Castle in African and Arab countries, including support.
Palestinians have held observer status at the United Nations and UNESCO since the mid-1970s.
The Obama administration criticized the UNESCO movement. The Palestinian membership offer "premature and end of the United Nations in New York undermine established" said a senior administration officials, was not entitled to speak Wednesday.
"We do not believe that we all - two States, Israel and Palestine - reaches the target be, through a culture and science organization in Paris," the official said. "This goal can be achieved only through direct negotiations between the parties."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to journalists, while on a visit to the Dominican Republic, said that the UNESCO Executive Board should reconsider his decision, Reuters reported. "Unfortunately there are those who realize the aspirations of the Palestinian people, the determining skip most important step, the State looks like, what are its limits, how it will deal with the myriad problems in their enthusiasm, need to fix the States," Mrs Clinton said.
The State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said that lawyers busily were reviewing how and when the Palestinian membership would affect the American funding. She said that the Administration will try to block a vote of the UNESCO membership, even if it promotes a resumption of talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
The topic is hot in Congress. In a statement on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, the Obama asked management to "clear, that any decision the Palestinian mission to update status by UNESCO or an other UN is a cutoff of U.S. funding for this entity."
On Wednesday, the Israeli Ambassador to the Organization on the damage that can inflict UNESCO itself pointed out.
"We hope and pray that the UNESCO authorities will - see and the Palestinians will realize - is a very high price to pay, American participation in UNESCO," the Israeli Ambassador said Nimrod Barkan.
In a statement denounced Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Palestinian membership offer as a "negative response to Israel and the international efforts to promote the peace process."
France, that vote is abstain further to the question of the Palestinian State, its Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, said Reporter considers that UNESCO is not "the appropriate institution". Still, central to UNESCO in Paris, the membership vote with cheers and applause was received in which many delegations.
The Palestinian Envoy UNESCO, Elias Wadih Sanbar, told the assembled delegates: "We are opening a new era in Palestine is recognized."
Scott Sayare reported from Paris and Steven Erlanger from Brussels. Reporting was contributed by Maia de la Baume from Paris, Ethan Bronner from Jerusalem, Neil MacFarquhar from New York, and Steven Lee Myers from Washington.
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