Thanks for your quick and polite response. If you'll pardon an ignorant follow-up question, does the UN have any Embassies? I couldn't locate anything specifically called an Embassy at the UN wesite. Also, your link to "diplomatic mission" yields the following line: A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state. (Emphasis added)
Since "Palestine" is not an international inter-governmental organization, doesn't it follow that to the States which house "Palestinian" Embassies, at least, "Palestine" is a State? Is "Palestine" an exception to this? What exactly are the criteria for statehood? Are these criteria universally accepted by all States? -