"Israel on Monday thwarted the Palestinians' attempt to obtain observer state status at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD).
At the first public plenary of the CD's 2019 session, 33 states were granted observer status, 'while the Palestinian bid was the only one to be rejected, denying yet another Palestinian attempt to politicize the work of professional international organizations,' the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said in statement Tuesday.
Israel is one of the Geneva-based organization's 65 member states.
The Palestinian bid was supported by Iran, Turkey, North Korea and Venezuela, but Israeli diplomats in Jerusalem and missions across the world, 'in close coordination with the US,' managed to block the move, according to the ministry.
'This is another Palestinian attempt to politicize professional UN bodies and international agencies,' the statement read..."