Palestine will launch a bid to become a full member of the United Nations, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Tuesday.
The bid will go ahead despite the United States having said it will veto Palestine's membership plans.
"We know that we are going to face a US veto but that won't prevent us from presenting our application", Al-Maliki told journalists.
He added that the Palestinians will begin lobbying members of the Security Council in the coming weeks.
The Palestinians presented a request for UN membership in 2011, but the application never came before the Security Council for a vote.
Following that attempt, Palestine's status was upgraded from a non-member observer entity to a non-member observer state, which allows the country to be a signatory to treaties for which the UN Secretary-General is the depositary.
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