AlQa'dah 27, 1432, Oct 25, 2011, SPA -- Kuwait has appealed to the UN Security Council to approve Palestine's full UN membership, to provide protection for the Palestinians in their occupied territories and for the dispatch of a fact-finding committee to investigate the situation in Israeli prisons. This came in the speech of the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi to the UN Security Council during the monthly discussion of the status in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue on Monday evening. Al-Otaibi said that people in the region follow with great interest, hope and anticipation the meetings of the Council, in its discussions of Palestine's UN membership. He urged the Security Council to "carry out its responsibilities in reviving confidence in international legitimacy and to approve the long-awaited Palestinian demand for the sake of the consolidating the reality of a Palestinian state". He said that international attention is directed to the members of the Security Council to take a historical approach towards the decades-long Palestinian demand for full UN membership, particularly while more than 130 countries (over two thirds of the UN's member countries) recognize Palestinian statehood. He added that the countries of the region and its people attach great hopes on the international community in general and the Security Council specifically, "to bear its political, legal and ethical responsibilities in supporting Palestine's request for UN membership and to restoring their rights". Al-Otaibi asked the Council to put pressure on the Israeli government and compelling it to halt its illegal settlement activities and for the resumption of negotiations over a two-state solution according to the international legitimacy. He welcomed the recent release of a number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, calling for the release of the remaining prisoners locked in Israeli prisons and for the dispatch of an international fact-finding mission to investigate the conditions prevailing in the prisons of Israel and to reveal the extent of its commitment to the provisions and rules of international law.
