India votes to raise Palestine, Vatican flags at UN

United Nations: India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the right to non-member observer States of Palestine and the Vatican to raise their flags at the world body’s headquarters along side the flags of UN member nations.
The resolution ‘Raising the flags of non-member observer States at the United Nations’ was adopted on Thursday by a vote of 119 in favour to 8 against, with 45 delegations abstaining.

Voting against the resolution were Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Tuvalu and the United States.

By the terms of that text, the General Assembly decided that the flags of non-member observer States maintaining permanent observer missions at Headquarters shall be raised at Headquarters and United Nations offices following the flags of the Members States of the Organisation.

The Assembly took the decision noting the participation of non-member observer States that maintain permanent observer missions at Headquarters, of which there are currently two – the Holy See and Palestine, in its sessions and work.