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September 14, 2011

'Vatican Option' a Possibility for Palestine

Gwynne Dyer, Toronto Star

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The Vatican City is an independent and universally recognized state, but it only has 800 citizens so it has never sought a seat in the General Assembly. However, it does participate in most UN special organizations as a "non-member observer state."

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